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5p0125 DEAD END linen insert 1937 Humphrey Bogart, Joel McCrea, Sidney, Dead End Kids, ultra rare!

Date Sold 9/1/2020
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More)

Dead End, the classic 1937 William Wyler New York City poor-people-in-the-slums-living-side-by-side-with-rich-people crime thriller ("Drama that roars fullblooded from the screen"; "As human as life itself... as dramatic as primal passions... there's never been a motion picture life this! A city street... paved with riches and poverty, comedy and tragedy, romance and heartaches,... time that ticks its way to eternity, punctuated by birth, life and death... a block that end at the river's edge, where frustration lives, yet hope never dies! You may not like these people, nor pity them, but you'll never forget this picture!"; "Based on the play by Sidney Kingsley"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; written by Lillian Hellman; about New York City slum children interacting with rich people, and there is a major subplot about a famous killer coming home to visit his mother and former girlfriend!) starring Sylvia Sidney ("Drina... the girl who wanted an 'out' but who wouldn't sell her soul!"), Joel McCrea ("Dave... who wanted to rip down the tenements instead of living in them!"), Humphrey Bogart ("Baby Face... whose mother was sorry she brought him into the world!"), Wendy Barrie ("Kay... who found her 'out' and wouldn't go back... even for love"), Marjorie Main (as Bogart's mother who rejects him), The Dead End Kids (Billy Hallop, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, and Bernard Punsly, in their very first movie!; billed as "The Dead End Kids from the original New York stage cast"; "Tommy, Leo, Angel, Dippy and Spit, played by the children who were the sensation of the New York stage play!"), Claire Trevor ("Francey... who took the 'easiest' way... and found it the hardest!"; nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Bogart's ex-girlfriend, now a prostitute), Allen Jenkins ("Hunk... Baby Face's henchman who met his doom when shadows deepened!"), and Ward Bond (as the doorman!)
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Important Added Info: Note that 1937 first release posters from this movie are incredibly rare! We have only previously auctioned a one-sheet (26 years ago for $1,610) and two window cards (both heavily trimmed), and NO other first release posters until we were consigned this first release insert!

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster had much staining in the top, with small stains and smudges scattered throughout the rest of the poster. It also had pinholes and some paper loss around the edges and some creases and tears near the center of the image, including one going through part of Bogart's face. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. Someone linenbacked the poster with no excess and did no restoration. Obviously, a talented restorer could remove the poster from the linen and properly re-back it, but please bear all of the above in mind before bidding on this poster.
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