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Auction History Result 6c450 LADY FOR A NIGHT 2-sided 40x60 '41 printed on back of Men of Boys Town to conserve paper! Date Sold 3/26/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Lady for a Night, the 1941 Leigh Jason Memphis Tennessee romantic love triangle gambling melodrama ("From the deep romantic South comes another thrilling drama of love and intrigue"; "A great love story that belongs to every woman!"; "Based on a story by Garrett Fort"; about a politician in Memphis who is secretly partners with a woman who runs a riverboat gambling casino, and they have a romance too, but she spurns him and she gets a chance to marry a blue blood) starring Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Ray Middleton, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka, Edith Barrett, Leonid Kinsky, and the Hall Johnson Choir. Note that this was a very unusual role for John Wayne! Not only is this not at all an action movie, but he is clearly not the lead character, and unlike the other movies he made before and after this! 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 during World War II, there were shortages of almost everything in the U.S., and one of those things in short supply was paper, and the government called on the producers of large movie posters to "do their part" and print on the back of other movie posters whenever possible. This was complied with in many European countries, but until we saw this poster, we had not thought many, if any, U.S. movie poster manufacturers had done this, simply because we had not seen U.S. movie posters from World War II that were printed on the back of other posters. But THIS cool poster has a "Lady for a Night" 40x60 printed on the back of a "Men of Boys Town" 40x60, and a huge snipe has been placed on the middle of the "Men of Boys Town" poster explaining why this was done! It may be that only thick paper posters like this were considered worth salvaging (and they also would have less of a bleed through problem that thinner paper posters would have. It DOES seem quite ironic that they glued a giant snipe on the back, thus using a big chunk of paper to do so! This poster would seem to be an important artifact of this era and proves that there were U.S. movie posters printed on the back of others during World War II. Condition: fair. The poster was printed on the back of another poster (see above). There is paper loss across the top of the poster and tears and areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster, and the entire poster has darkened. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored (as noted above, this seems to be an amazing artifact of U.S. World War II paper shortages, so I would hope the new buyer would preserve it just as it is, possibly only restoring the missing area at the top of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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