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Auction History Result h002 TAKE MY LIFE linen 1sh '41 Harlem Dead End Kids! Date Sold 9/27/2005Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Take My Life, the 1941 Harry M. Popkin black African American World War II (WWII) military juvenile delinquent crime murder melodrama ("Harlem Goes to War!"; "Thrill to the Brown Bombers in action"; about a group of tough Harlem street kids who are befriended by a gangster, but when the gangster kills someone, one of the kids is blamed, and the gangster goes on the run, and the kid is sentenced to be executed, but at the end, the gangster is in a car crash, and in the hospital, one of the kids tricks him into thinking he is about to be electrocuted, and he makes a deathbed confession) starring The Harlem Dead End Kids (including Freddie Baker, Jack Carter and DeForst Covan), Monte Hawley, Jeni Le Gon and "An All Star Colored Cast". Note that the screenwriter of this movie clearly heavily borrowed from the James Cagney classic, "Angels with Dirty Faces", but they added a strong patriotic element, having the kids learn all about patriotism from an Army recruiter, and at the end of the movie when they are cleared, they all join the Army and appear in uniform! This was the first movie to show African Americans serving in World War II in a positive light. 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 has been professionally linenbacked. Prior to linenbacking, the poster was somewhat tattered around the edges in the blank white borders and there were tiny areas of paper loss in the vertical foldline from the middle crossfold down to 2" below the bottom crossfold. There was some small paper loss to the left of the top crossfold in the "M" of "MY". Other than the above defects, the poster was in pretty good condition prior to linenbacking. It was well backed, and the above defects are not really at all noticeable, even when looking at the poster from a short distance away. I would think any collector would be happy to display this poster on their wall! Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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