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Auction History Result 5p0958 HELL'S HOUSE linen 1/2sh R1930s Bette Davis top billed in movie she had a minor role in! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1930s) Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Hell's House, the 1932 Paul Gangelin & B. Harrison Orkow bad teens reform school bootlegging crime melodrama ("A human symphony for all ages!"; about a teenage boy who is orphaned and idolizes a bootlegger, and he goes to work for him, and takes the blame for him when something goes wrong, and he is sent to reform school!) starring Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Frank Coghlan Jr., Emma Dunn, and Bette Davis (very young in this role!). Note that this movie came out before Bette Davis was a star, and she plays the minor role of the bootlegger's girlfriend, and is not billed or pictured on the original posters, and rightfully so. But soon after the movie's release, she became a star, there was a very deceptive re-release of this movie, on which she was the top star! 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 only previously auctioned four examples of this half-sheet, and the last one was 11 years ago! Also note that Astor Pictures re-released lots of classic Hollywood movies in the 1940s. It seems that it came into existence around 1938, because that is the earliest year we have for it, and there were a bunch of great movies released by them that year, so it seems likely they started by buying the rights to a bunch of movies at once in 1938. It also seems likely that this poster would date from that first group of releases in 1938, since Bette Davis had become a giant star in the six years since this movie was first made. But none of the Astor posters are dated, so it makes it difficult to confirm any of this. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some fine surface paper loss on parts of the folds, with some creases, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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