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Auction History Result 3p341 SIGN OF THE CROSS linen 1sh R44 Cecil B. DeMille classic, Fredric March, Elissa Landi! Date Sold 12/7/2014![]() Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross, the classic 1932 Cecil B. DeMille early Christians-vs-Romans religious romantic love triangle action adventure epic ("A picture which will proudly lead all the entertainments the world has ever seen"; "Superb road-show dramatic spectacle"; "The First Big Spectacle of Talking Pictures"; "From the play by Wilson Barrett") starring Fredric March (as Marcus Superbus), Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert (as Empress Poppaea), Charles Laughton (as Emperor Nero), Ian Keith, Tommy Conlon, Vivian Tobin, and a "Cast of Thousands" 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 Paramount re-released this movie in 1944. In order to make it more relevant to World War II (WWII) audiences, DeMille shot a new "prologue" that took place aboard a military plane, where the men on board get into a conversation about religious tolerance, and then one launches into a story of the early Christians and their persecution, and then the 1932 movie is shown, as if in a flashback! Curiously, the movie ends without an epilogue, and the entire "prologue" feels very pasted on and superfluous. The advertising for the 1944 version looks very similar to that of the 1932 version, but the words "Modernized Production" are added. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a 5" diagonal cut in the top center, starting in the right of Colbert's hair and extending into the yellow background. It had some small tears and the top quarter of the vertical foldline and tiny paper loss at the crossfolds. It had some pinholes around the edges. 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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