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Auction History Result 4y0119 LAST GENTLEMAN linen 1sh 1934 cool silhouette art of George Arliss w/monocle, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/7/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/2" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Last Gentleman, the 1934 Sidney Lanfield family relationship inheritance romantic comedy ("The grand successor to 'The House of Rothschild'"; about a rich old man who has a bunch of awful relatives, and he knows they all want his money, and he tricks them into doing things to try to get his money, but after he dies, he leaves a filmed living will where he tells who gets what, and gets the last laugh on his bad relatives!) starring George Arliss, Edna May Oliver, Janet Beecher, Charlotte Henry, and Ralph Morgan NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this one-sheet! Not only that, but we have never auctioned any posters, just a few lobby cards, stills, and a herald. Also note that this poster has Edna May Oliver billed as "Edna Mae Oliver"! This is solely on this poster, and not on the studio-issued posters. Also note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it is similar to posters printed by "Leader Press" or "the other company". A constant headache for theaters (especially those showing burlesque) was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds. It had a pinhole in each corner and some slight darkening and very tiny paper loss in the outer edges of small parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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