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Auction History Result 5p0794 PASSPORT TO HELL/SERVICE FOR LADIES linen Japanese 21x31 1930s Elissa Landi, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Japanese Movie Poster (measures 20 3/4" x 30 1/2" [53 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) the 1930s Japanese double-bill release of A Passport to Hell, the 1932 Frank Lloyd World War I (WWI) romantic infidelity spy espionage military melodrama (an extremely complicated story about an English woman who is blamed for another woman's suicide, and she was deported to Germany, and she marries a German man who sells secrets to the British to try to get her allowed back in, and she has an affair which causes her husband to kill himself and then she leaves Germany trying to find her lost love!) starring Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, and Warner Oland (best remembered as Charlie Chan in the 20th Century Fox series) AND Service for Ladies (released in the U.S. as "Reserved for Ladies"), the 1932 Alexander Korda English romantic love triangle class differences comedy (similar to "Love Me Tonight"; there is a headwaiter at a fancy London hotel who falls in love with a visiting rich woman, even though he has been having a secret affair with a Countess; he poses as a rich man at a Swiss hotel, and the rich woman falls in love with him, but then she discovers he is really a waiter, but everything works out in the end) starring Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan, and Morton Selten 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 unusual pre-World War II Japanese poster, which advertises a U.S. and an English movie as a double-bill! Also note that this is a very rare poster from Japan from before World War II. There are very few Japanese movie posters from before World War II in existence (likely because of paper shortages in Japan during World War II), and most of those few are in museums. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss down the upper right, running through the woman's hair, face, and body, ending near her elbow. It also had some small tears and paper loss around the edges. It had small paper loss in one of the red Japanese characters at upper left. It had some small tears and tiny paper loss on the folds. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Given the poster's significant defects, the restorer did a pretty nice job, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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