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Auction History Result f454 OLD MAID linen one-sheet movie poster '39 Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins Date Sold 2/7/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Old Maid, the 1939 Edmund Goulding family relationship romantic melodrama ("This, above All, Bette's Best!"; "Based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by Zoe Akins and the Novel by Edith Wharton"; a really wild story set during the Civil War of a pair of female cousins; one marries well, but her former fiance appears on the day of her wedding, and the her cousin comforts him; he goes off to the war, and he is killed, and it turns out he got the cousin pregnant, and she hides that from her town, raising the child in a home for orphans; when the girl grows up, she is taken in by her mother's rich cousin, and her real mother lives there too; the girl considers her mother's cousin to be her mother, and as she marries, her real mother wants to tell her the truth, but finally realizes that it would serve no purpose, and she keeps her secret to herself) starring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, Louise Fazenda, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan, Cecilia Loftus, and Marlene Burnett NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and one of the following is true: either the poster had minor defects, and was well backed, OR it had more significant defects, but they were extremely well restored, OR it had some very minor defects that were not completely restored, and are somewhat noticeable. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). Note that we gave this condition grade to a very few posters that were in pretty good condition prior to linenbacking, but which were not all that well linenbacked, and which could be fairly easily re-backed with only minor additional restoration. The poster had two 3" semi-circular tears 1" to the left and right of the middle crossfold (in the white area of Davis' dress). There was tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some minute paper loss in the vertical foldline between the top and bottom crossfolds. There was minor wear on the other foldlines and minor border defects. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well. Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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