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Auction History Result 5a0005 DODSWORTH linen 1/2sh 1936 William Wyler, Ruth Chatterton, Walter Huston, Lukas, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Dodsworth, the classic 1936 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic love triangle melodrama ("Samuel Goldwyn has the honor to present Sinclair Lewis'' Dodsworth"; "Here is a picture marked for greatness!"; "Here is a picture that was marked for greatness before it was ever screened"; about a retired Midwest tycoon who takes his much younger wife on a European trip, and she has affairs and leaves him, and he finds a new love, but then his wife tires of her escapades and calls him back to her, which he reluctantly does; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; adapted from the equally classic novel by Sinclair Lewis) starring Walter Huston (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Sam Dodsworth), Ruth Chatterton (as Fran Dodsworth), Paul Lukas (as Arnold Iselin), Mary Astor (as Edith Cortright), David Niven (as Captain Lockert), Maria Ouspenskaya (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Baroness Von Obersdorf), Gregory Gaye (as Kurt Von Obersdorf), Spring Byington (as Matey Pearson), and Harlan Briggs (as Tub Pearson) 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 first release posters from this classic movie are incredibly rare! We have only previously auctioned one example of the first release one-sheet (that was 18 years ago, when it sold for $2,402.77), and we have never before auctioned this 1936 first release half-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfold and some creases and a few tiny tears on parts of the horizontal fold and the bottom half of the vertical fold. It had scuffs in the bottom center. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. Learn More about condition grades 
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