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Auction History Result 3f599 PENTHOUSE 1/2sh '33 art of Warner Baxter & Myrna Loy, plus dancing couples! Date Sold 5/18/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Arthur Somers Roche's Penthouse, the 1933 W.S. Van Dyke pre-Code courtroom legal lawyer crime mystery thriller ("From the Cosmopolitan magazine story by Arthur Somers Roche"; about a distinguished lawyer who defends a notorious gangster, and then he is shunned by everyone but gangsters, and he has a romance with the beautiful young Myrna Loy!) starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes, C. Henry Gordon, and George E. Stone. Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", re-titled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There are some smudges and small areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster. There are light stains and tiny areas of surface paper loss in the artwork at lower left and right. The poster is otherwise in generally nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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