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Auction History Result 4g081 CLEOPATRA linen 1sh '34 stone litho of Claudette Colbert, William & Wilcoxon, Cecil B DeMille Date Sold 12/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra, the 1934 Cecil B. DeMille historical ancient Egypt romantic love triangle desert epic ("'The Siren of the Nile'... Most famous woman of love who ever lived!"; "A love affair that shook the world, set in a spectacle of thrilling magnificence!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Claudette Colbert (in the title role as Cleopatra), Warren William (as Julius Caesar), Henry Wilcoxon (as Marc Antony), Joseph Schildkraut (as King Herod), Ian Keith (as Octavian), C. Aubrey Smith, Gertrude Michael (as Calpurnia), Arthur Hohl (as Brutus), Edwin Maxwell (as Casca), Ian Maclaren (as Cassius), and David Niven (in his third role, uncredited in a bit part as a slave!). Note that there had been a 1917 silent version of this movie with Theda Bara in the leading role, and it was remade in 1963 with Elizabeth Taylor (and, of course, there have been many other depictions of Cleopatra in movies all through the years). 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 original release 1934 posters from this classic Cecil B. DeMille movie are incredibly rare. In 1995, we auctioned an example of the style A one-sheet, but we have never had that one-sheet since, and we have never before auctioned this style B one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had an extra partial vertical foldline 1/2" to the right of the regular vertical fold. It had small paper loss at the middle crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had some tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some foldlines. It had pinholes in the corners and some tiny bits of paper loss in the blank borders. It had some smudges in some of the letters of the title. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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