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Auction History Result 5j075 MISFITS linen British quad '61 Clark Gable, sexy Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Huston Date Sold 12/4/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked British Quad Movie Poster (BQ; Quad Crown; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Misfits, the 1961 John Huston modern-day romantic cowboy western ("It shouts and sings with life... explodes with love!"; "Never again will the screen hold such excitement!"; "The world's greatest photographers shoot 'the Misfits'!"; with a screenplay by Arthur Miller) starring Clark Gable (in his last film), Marilyn Monroe (in her last completed film), Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, and James Barton (in his last film). Note that Arthur Miller was at the time married to Monroe, but the marriage fell apart during filming. He began to see Inge Morath, a photographer documenting production of this film, and she later became his third and final wife. Also note that Clark Gable went on a crash diet before production started, losing 35 pounds. His health was already precarious, and he hated working with Marilyn Monroe, who could not remember her lines and did not show up on time, which aggravated his condition, and he suffered from a coronary thrombosis the day after shooting finished, dying ten days later. He was 59. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had smudges and scuffs on parts of the foldlines and some pinholes, smudges, and scuffs around the edges. Someone had written the title of the movie on the back of the top left, and it bled through in the yellow background area below the tagline. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style" onto a thin linen backing, meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. The person who did the mounting did not use the proper glue, because the linen is rippled from the back, indicating it is starting to separate. If I owned this cool poster, I would surely have it removed from the thin linen and properly backed, with restoration to the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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