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Auction History Result 2j337 IRON PETTICOAT linen Aust daybill 1956 different art of Bob Hope & Katharine Hepburn, rare! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13 1/4" x 30 1/4" [34 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) The Iron Petticoat, the 1956 Ralph Thomas English romantic Capitalism-vs-Communism political comedy ("MGM presents The Comedy Team of the Year"; "Hilariously together for the first time!"; about a female communist who defects from Russia to London, not because she doesn't like communism, but because she doesn't like how women are treated in Russia, and she meets an American captain who tries to convince her of the superiority of capitalism, and of course, they fall in love) starring Bob Hope, Katharine Hepburn, Noelle Middleton, James Robertson-Justice, Robert Helpmann, David Kossof, Alan Gifford, Paul Carpenter, Nicholas Phipps, and Sidney James. Note that this movie bears many similarities to the 1939 Greta Garbo movie "Ninotchka", but the great screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote this movie, while Ninotchka was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett! 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 this Australian daybill, which has a completely different image! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny tears and tiny paper loss in the top horizontal fold and staining in the upper right blank border, and a small tear in the middle right blank border. 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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