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Auction History Result 2g675 SILVER QUEEN style A half-sheet '42 beautiful Priscilla Lane gambling in huge poker game! Date Sold 10/7/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical UnFolded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Silver Queen, the 1942 Lloyd Bacon gambling poker casino silver mining action melodrama ("The Most Beautiful... Most Daring... Most Dangerous Woman on the Barbary Coast!") starring George Brent, Priscilla Lane, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman, Eugene Pallette, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Roy Barcroft, Jason Robards Sr., and Marietta Canty, Note that this movie focuses on a male and female professional poker player in 1870. In the original publicity for the movie, Priscilla Lane is described as playing "a woman card player, whose reputation has spread far and wide". It seems this movie anticipated the current poker craze, even down to there being top women players who could hold their own with the best male players! 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 this half-sheet has a wonderful image of beautiful Priscilla Lane in dress clothes sitting at a poker table with all men in tuxedos, and she has a massive stack of gambling chips, and she is making a huge bet, and looking quite confident about her hand! Also, the borders have images of George Brent in a king of diamonds playing card, and Priscilla Lane in a queen of hearts playing card! Also note that this poster has never been machine folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded once horizontally and once vertically right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded example of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Condition: good. There is an 8" tear in the middle right of the poster that was repaired with tape from the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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