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Auction History Result 2j121 TIN PAN ALLEY linen style B 1/2sh 1940 Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, rare! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Tin Pan Alley, the 1940 Walter Lang New York City/London England boxing romantic songwriting musical ("Based on a story by Pamela Harris"; about two men who want to be songwriters, but have so little success that one boxes to pay their bills; they meet a pair of singing sisters, and one of them falls in love with one of the men, and she lends the men the money to buy a great song on the condition that she can sing it, but the men double-cross her when a famous star offers to sing it, so she goes to London to join her sister in an act there, and the men enlist in the Army and they get sent to London, where they are reunited with the sisters!) starring Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Allen Jenkins, Esther Ralston, Nicholas Brothers, and Ben Carter. Note that the meaning of the words "Tin Pan Alley" are pretty forgotten today, but in the days before television, just about every home had a piano, and sheet music sold in the millions! In New York City, starting around 1915, 46th Street and 8th Avenue became known as Tin Pan Alley, because that's where all of the song publishers were located, and every would-be songwriter would dream of selling their songs there! 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 a half-sheet from this movie! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had a "key-shaped" area of paper loss in the center of the poster (a larger area right at the center, including Grable's shoulder, and then a thin strip running across her upper body). It had creases and scuffs along both folds and some pinholes, creases, and small paper loss around the edges, with paper loss at the right end of the top blank border. There were some small stains in Grable's nose and forehead, and some scuffs and smudges scattered in the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone linenbacked the poster and performed restoration to the above defects, and it can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or one might choose to have additional restoration performed, either with or without re-backing this extremely rare poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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