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Auction History Result 9v005 HEROES FOR SALE 1sh '33 sexiest art of Loretta Young & veteran-turned-addict Barthelmess! Date Sold 1/21/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Heroes for Sale, the 1933 William A. Wellman drug addiction World War I (WWI) veterans-returning-from-war-to-find-no-jobs melodrama (which deals with the drug addiction problem among World War I veterans, a daring subject for 1933) starring Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young (20 years old!), Gordon Westcott, Robert Barrat, and Ward Bond (this was his 35th movie since 1929, and he was uncredited or played bit parts in all of them!; he would end up making a staggering 272 movies, and apparently, Warner Bros. directors liked to give him a part in virtually every movie they made, often uncredited or bit parts, even after he was a well established actor!; he had been best friends with John Wayne for years, as supposedly they were college roommates, and appeared in almost all of Wayne's later movies, especially those directed by John Ford; he achieved stardom at the end of his career as the star of TV's "Wagon Train", and died in the third year of that show's production in 1960) 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 this poster was machine folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. The poster was used in another country, and at one time there was a paper snipe glued over the title area, and when it was removed, it caused small surface paper loss in the upper left of the "f" of "for" and a few dots of surface paper loss in four of the letters of the word "Heroes", and a tiny bit of surface paper loss in the background next to the bottom of Young's dress. Also, the poster was folded oddly, with two evenly spaced vertical folds instead of one. The poster had separations at the crossfolds. All of the right half of the bottom horizontal fold was separated at the bottom 10" of the right vertical foldline. Someone took conservation tape and put it on the back of the crossfolds and the separation, and also used pieces of conservation tape on the back of twelve areas of the borders to attach the poster to a mat, and it was framed (they did no restoration whatsoever to the tiny paper loss caused by the removal of the snipe). Other than the above described defects, the poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition. The new owner of this great poster can either have it re-framed in the same way (I really don't think the slight paper loss in the title area is very distracting at all), or any talented restorer could easily remove the tape from the back, restore the slight paper loss, and linenback it, and the poster will look incredible. I am envious of the new owner of this poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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