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MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 4y0143 MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON linen style B 1sh 1939 Stewart & Arthur, different & ultra rare! Date Sold 7/7/2020 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) Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the classic 1939 Frank Capra (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) political corruption politics romantic melodrama ("A great director creates his most heart-stirring human spectacle!"; "Capra's magic probes the very heart of America to produce this greatest hit - a blend of laughter, tears, romance, excitement!"; "Capra's greatest hit --- the screen at its most inspired!"; "The greatest of all Capra hits!"; "Gayer than 'It Happened One Night', More Moving than 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town', More Tender than 'You Can't Take It With You'"; "Overwhelming... in its universal appeal!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a political innocent from the country who is appointed as a replacement senator, and he learns of political corruption, and tries to expose it, only to find that even the senator he most admires is in on the corruption) starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart; nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Jefferson Smith), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Senator Paine), Edward Arnold (as the corrupt businessman, Jim Taylor, who tells senators what to do), Guy Kibbee, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey Sr. (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as President of the Senate), Porter Hall, Jack Carson, Bobs Watson, Astrid Allwyn, and Eugene Pallette 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 first release one-sheets from this most classic movie are incredibly rare! Perhaps this is related to the movie being re-released in 1949, which would have used up most of the surviving first release paper. In any event, we auctioned a style A one-sheet in 1992, and after that, we did not auction another first release one-sheet until 2017, when we auctioned a style C one-sheet. Now, for the first time, we are auctioning this style B one-sheet, which means that after this auction, we will have auctioned one of each of the three styles one time each in all our years of auctioning, and that shows how incredibly rare first release one-sheets are! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss in all four borders that slightly extended into the background in several places, and there was a diagonal area of paper loss in the top right corner of the image, extending 2" into the yellow background at top right, and then continuing diagonally down to the right side of the yellow sign the person is holding (near the top of the crowd). There were also tears and areas of paper loss scattered down the center, and some along the other folds, with a few areas of paper loss scattered in the rest of the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. A really talented restorer did a wonderful job repairing the above defects, working off of a high quality image taken of another example of the poster decades ago. While you can see slight signs of the defects the poster has had, virtually no one would realize the amount of restoration it has had, and the poster will display wonderfully on the new owner's wall. But please read all of the above carefully and look closely at our super-sized image to see how the poster displays now before bidding on this very rare and desirable poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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