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Auction History Result 9f190 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA linen pre-Awards 1sh '62 David Lean classic, silhouette art of O'Toole! Date Sold 7/13/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Lawrence of Arabia, the classic 1962 (wide release in the U.S. in 1963) David Lean (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) English/U.S. World War I (WWI) desert adventure thriller ("Stands Alone!"; "Unanimously acclaimed as 'One of the all time greatest films!'"; "Best Picture of the Year!"; "Winner of 7 Academy Awards!"; "The motion picture that made great international stars of Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif"; "After five years... The first motion picture from the creators of 'The Bridge On The River Kwai.'"; "A mighty spectacle of action and adventure!"; produced by Sam Spiegel and David Lean; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Omar Sharif (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; "as 'Ali'"), Peter O'Toole (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as T.E. Lawrence; billed as "introducing Peter O'Toole as Lawrence"; which is odd, because he had small parts in several movies prior to this one!), and Zia Mohyeddin NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Georges Kerfyser Important Added Info: Note that for this classic English/U.S. co-production, the producers knew that it would surely win multiple Academy Awards, and so it was given a very limited pre-Academy Award release at the end of 1962, so that it would qualify for the Academy Awards given the following year. There were two different pre-Academy Awards one-sheets created, one of which has this classic silhouette art of Peter O'Toole, and the other of which has art of Peter O'Toole riding on a camel, and both of these posters are many times more rare than the one-sheets which credit this classic movie as an Academy Award Winner, because those one-sheets were solely used for the very limited 1962 release, and would not have been used at any point after that, because of course, the studio very much wanted to make those viewing the posters aware of the Academy Awards the movie had won! What IS linenbacking? Learn More What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. Someone incredibly neatly trimmed 3/8" from the left, right, and top blank borders of the poster, and 3/4" from the bottom blank border. Only blank white paper was affected, and nothing in the image or the small writing at the bottom was affected at all. Otherwise, the poster had the tiniest of paper loss at the crossfolds and very minor wear on the foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. An expert restorer replaced the portions of the missing blank borders (which will not show when the poster is framed anyway), and the poster displays incredibly. Each person must make up their own mind, but I would personally much rather have some of the blank borders trimmed than have even a fairly small hole within the image, and certainly, the new owner of this wonderful poster will love having it on display, as will all who get to view it! Learn More about condition grades 
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