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Auction History Result 8x355 IN OLD SANTA FE linen 1sh R39 great stone litho of cowboys Kermit Maynard & Gene Autry! Date Sold 12/8/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1939 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) In Old Santa Fe, the 1934 Joseph Kane singing cowboy western musical ("An Unusual Western. Colorful - with Music and A Beautiful Background") starring Ken Maynard, Tarzan (billed as "with his Wonder Horse 'Tarzan'"), Evalyn Knapp, H.B. Warner, Kenneth Thomson, George 'Gabby' Hayes (billed as "George Hayes"), Gene Autry ("Radio's singing cowboy"; "Cowboy idol of the air"), Wheeler Oakman, George Burton, George Chesebro, Smiley Burnette (uncredited in his first film), and Bob Nolan (uncredited as Maynard's singing voice and in his first film). Note that this was Gene Autry's very first movie, although he had been a singing radio cowboy for several years prior to this movie's release, and that many experts on B-Westerns agree that this film is one of the three greatest B-Westerns ever made! Also note that this movie was clearly set in "Old Santa Fe", but we don't know if that meant it was in New Mexico (or maybe Old Mexico!). 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 there are two different versions of this poster. They look similar, but one of them has a stone litho image and the other has an offset image, and Gene Autry's credit is different on the two posters. In the past, we thought they might have both been created in 1934, but as we have built a huge database of litho numbers over the years, we now feel certain that the "non-stone litho" version IS from 1934, and that the "stone litho" version is from 1939 (which makes sense, because the 1934 poster has Gene Autry billed as "Radio's Singing Cowboy", and the 1939 poster has him billed as "The World's Greatest Cowboy Singer". We guess that in 1934, this was nothing more than a B-western, so they did not spend a lot of money on the poster, but by 1939, Autry was a much bigger star, and the movie likely got a more significant release, and they made a new stone litho version of the poster for that release! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the bottom crossfold and a light brown water stain in Maynard's hat to the left of the bottom crossfold. There were some creases and small tears on parts of some foldlines and some pinholes, creases, and tears around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone mounted the poster onto a very thin linen with no excess border, and performed no restoration. Any talented restorer could easily remove the poster from this thin linen and properly linenback it onto regular linen, and after restoration of the above defects, the poster will look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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