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Auction History Result

9m0795 TRANSATLANTIC MERRY-GO-ROUND linen 1sh R1942 radio's Jack Benny, Keep 'Em Laughing, ultra rare!

Date Sold 8/8/2021
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A 1942 Re-Release (re-titled "Keep 'Em Laughing" for this re-release) Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, the 1934 Benjamin Stoloff musical murder mystery crime comedy (about a crime boss who blackmails his ex-mistress into one last fling with him on an ocean liner, but then he is found murdered, and the ship is filled with people who had good reason to kill him!) starring Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll, Gene Raymond, Sydney Howard, Mitzi Green, Sid Silvers, Frank Parker, The Boswell Sisters (Connee, Martha, and Vet; they were a trio of white New Orleans gospel, jazz, and blues singers; Connee was paralyzed from the waist down and performed sitting to hide her disability, but in the late 1930s, she became open about it and performed in a wheelchair, and supposedly that helped inspire President Roosevelt to stop concealing his disability), Sidney Blackmer, Patsy Kelly, Ralph Morgan, Shirley Grey, Sam Hardy, William 'Stage' Boyd, Jean Sargent, and Jimmy Grier and His Orchestra
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Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from ANY release of this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a few lobby cards and stills, as well as a re-release pressbook, from any release of this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this 1942 re-release one-sheet!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some small tears and tiny paper loss scattered in the vertical fold, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!
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