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Auction History Result 5s0012 ARROWSMITH WC 1931 great art of Ronald Colman & pretty Helen Hayes, John Ford, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Arrowsmith, the 1931 John Ford medical doctor romantic fictional biography melodrama ("The great American novel now becomes the great American motion picture!"; "He devoted his life to service... and his heart to the love of one woman"; "From the Nobel Prize novel by Sinclair Lewis"; about the life of a dedicated doctor, from his earliest days in medical school through a long distinguished career; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Ronald Colman (in the title role as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith), Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, Myrna Loy, and A.E. Anson. Note that there is something very ironic about the crediting United Artists used for the source novel. When Lewis wrote Arrowsmith, he was voted the Pulitzer Prize for it, but he refused it. In 1930, he was given the Nobel Prize for Literature, not specifically for any one novel, and he accepted it. Samuel Goldwyn, the producer of the movie, wanted to advertise that this was an award-winning novel, so he combined the two above facts to get the tagline "from the Nobel Prize novel", which is not strictly true! 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 window card! Condition: fair to good. It appears that many years ago, someone tried to roll up the window card, and they caused many horizontal creases throughout the card. Otherwise, the card is in pretty nice condition. I don't know to what degree a restorer can make the creases less noticeable (perhaps by simply pressing and flattening the card, or perhaps by backing it). The creases are not super distracting from a reasonable viewing distance, but they are extremely noticeable from close up, but please do not bid on this extremely rare window card unless you have read and can accept all of the above. Learn More about condition grades 
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