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Auction History Result 7a036 SAY IT WITH SONGS linen local theater 1sh '29 wonderful art of Al Jolson in blackface! Date Sold 4/3/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 1/8" x 41 3/8" [69 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) Say It With Songs, the 1929 Lloyd Bacon family relationship father/son crime prison musical melodrama ("Based on story by Darryl Francis Zanuck & Harvey Gates"; of course, Zanuck would go on to become one of the most important producers that ever lived!; about a man who goes to prison for killing his wife's lover; when he gets out, he goes to see his young son, but more tragedy occurs) starring Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson, and John Bowers 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 sold both the regular release one-sheet and window card from this movie, and both have pretty disappointing images of Al Jolson. The window card has a photographic image of him by a radio microphone, and it is two-color, and the one-sheet has a "family portrait" art image of Jolson, Lee, and Nixon. But this Quigley Litho Co. poster (see below) has a wonderful artwork image of Jolson in blackface, and many collectors would surely prefer to have this local theater one-sheet rather than the studio-issued one-sheet! Note that the date on the poster (Saturday, October 19) WAS in 1929, proving that this poster was created for the first release of the movie in 1929! Also note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it very much looks like it was printed by the "Leader Press" company, but actually, it was printed by the Quigley Litho Co. of Kansas City, Missouri, which was a company just like Leader Press. In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, Quigley Litho, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had some tears near to the foldlines, but no paper loss. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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