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PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5p0261 PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII linen alternate company 1sh 1933 different art of Laughton, rare! Date Sold 9/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]) (Learn More) The Private Life of Henry the Eighth, the 1933 Alexander Korda English royalty historical romantic melodrama ("Every woman got it in the neck - eventually"; "He gave his wives a pain in the neck"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; very loosely based on historical events) starring Charles Laughton (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as King Henry VIII), Robert Donat, Merle Oberon (as Anne Boleyn, in her first important role!), Binnie Barnes (as Katherine Howard), Elsa Lanchester (as Anne of Cleves), Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander, Wendy Barrie (as Jane Seymour), Everley Gregg (as Katherine Parr), and John Loder. Note that Elsa Lanchester was married to Charles Laughton four years before this movie was made (and remained married to him until his death in 1962), and her scenes with Laughton in this movie are particularly delightful! 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 never before auctioned this "alternate company" one-sheet! Also note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it very much looks like it was printed by "Leader Press". In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 42" [72 x 107 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss and some small tears at the top crossfold, with tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had a few creases and tiny tears on parts of the folds. It had pinholes in the corners. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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