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Auction History Result 5t0036 LETTER silk banner 1940 art of Bette Davis with smoking gun, who wishes she were sorry, rare! Date Sold 1/16/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 40" x 52" [102 x 132 cm]) (Learn More) The Letter, the classic 1940 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Singapore romantic love triangle murder blackmail crime film noir ("Fascinating, tantalizing and dangerous!"; based on the novel "by W. Somerset Maugham"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about an unfaithful wife of a Singapore rubber plantation owner who is spurned by her lover and shoots him, and then pretends it was an accident, and she almost gets away with it, but there is a letter she wrote that is incriminating, but can she get the letter destroyed, and what will her husband think?) starring Bette Davis (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Herbert Marshall (who had a lesser role in the 1929 version of this film), James Stephenson (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, and Victor Sen Yung 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 only previously auctioned one example of this silk banner, and that was 14 years ago. That example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! Note that in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned a few dozen of them in our many years of auctioning, and most of those came from a single great find), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! Condition: very good. The burgee was stored folded. If there ever was a wooden pole in the top and a string attached, it is not present (although one could easily re-create it). Learn More about condition grades 
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