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Auction History Result 5a0941 SECRET GARDEN linen insert 1949 Margaret O'Brien, Herbert Marshall, Frances Hodgson Burnett Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Secret Garden, the 1949 Fred M. Wilcox orphan family relationship melodrama ("The famed book read by millions is on the screen with all its thrills!"; "The key to the most unusual picture of the year..."; "The woman behind the curtain"; "The house with a curse"; "The forbidden door"; "The Tree That Kills"; "Special Sequences in Color by Technicolor"; "The famed book ready by millions is on the screen with all its thrills!"; "Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett") starring Margaret O'Brien (as Mary Lennox), Herbert Marshall (as Archibald Craven), Dean Stockwell (very young in this role, as Colin Craven), Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester, Brian Roper (as Dickon), Reginald Owen, and George Zucco. Note that the singing voice of Margaret O'Brien was dubbed in by the legendary Marni Nixon, then 19 years old, who later went on to dub the singing voices of Deborah Kerr in "The King and I" and "An Affair to Remember", Natalie Wood in "West Side Story", and Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady"! 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 only previously auctioned one example of this insert, and that was 9 years ago. The buyer of that poster had it linenbacked and has now reconsigned it to us after all these years, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had paper loss in the top left corner and small paper loss and a 2" tear in the lower right border, with some small tears and stains in parts of the rest of the borders. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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