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Auction History Result 5p612 MISSISSIPPI E.J. Warner Poster Co 1sh '35 Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, W.C. Fields! Date Sold 10/18/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27 3/4" x 41") (Learn More) Mississippi, the 1935 A. Edward Sutherland romantic love triangle musical riverboat gambling comedy ("From the play by Booth Tarkington"; about an Eastern singer who falls in love with a Southern belle, and she has another suitor who challenges him to a duel, but he refuses, and she wants nothing to do with him because he is a coward; later, he gets a singing job on a riverboat run by W.C. Fields, and he accidentally kills a tough man, and the boat owner bills him as "The Singing Killer", and now the girl will have nothing to do with him because she thinks he is a killer!) starring Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith, John Miljan, Gail Patrick, Fred Kohler, Claude Gillingwater, "and the Cabin Kids" 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 one-sheet measures 27 3/4" x 41". Also note that this poster was printed by "E.J. Warner Poster Co., New York, N.Y.". 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). Condition: fair. There is much tattering along the foldlines and edges with some old tape repairs and tape stains on the back that now bleed through to the front. Learn More about condition grades 
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