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Auction History Result 5k205 MOON OVER MIAMI insert '41 wonderful sexy full-length Alberto Vargas-like pinup artwork! Date Sold 12/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Moon Over Miami, the 1941 Walter Lang Florida Everglades romantic musical ("Adaptation by George Seaton and Lynn Starling from a play by Stephen Powys"; "Lyrics and Music by Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger"; about two Texas girls losing an inheritance because of taxes and they travel to Miami to find rich husbands) starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings (Bob Cummings), Charlotte Greenwood, Jack Haley, Carole Landis, Cobina Wright Jr., Fortunio Bonanova, and Jack Cole. Note that Alberto Vargas did the artwork for the cover of the pressbook and the 24-sheet only on this movie, and both bear his signature. The pressbook explains that Vargas was commissioned to paint this image. Nowhere does it state that he did any of the other art for the movie, even though one of the one-sheets and the insert are often described as being Vargas art. It is my opinion that they are NOT drawn by Vargas, and certainly the pressbook backs that up. 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 insert and also the style A one-sheet (which has a "pinup" image of a sexy Betty Grable-like blonde, standing full-length in a skin-tight outfit!) has often been incorrectly attributed to Alberto Vargas. Actually, he solely did the 24-sheet for this movie, and the artist for the style A one-sheet (and this look-alike insert) did the art "in the Vargas style", which has caused this incorrect attribution. But it still is certainly wonderful art, and we wish we knew whose art it is, so that we could credit that person! Note that this poster has never been machine folded! Most insert posters were folded twice horizontally right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded example of most insert posters, especially from before 1970! Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had smudges, stains, small tears, and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges and a few scuffs and smudges scattered in the image. Because the defects were primarily in the blank borders, someone had it restored in a very "minimalist" fashion, where the border defects were repaired from the back, but only to the extent of strengthening the paper and mending the tears, and NOT restoring the smudges or stains on the front or the small paper loss in the right of the top blank border. They also did not touch the few scuffs and smudges in the image. The border defects will not show if the poster is framed, and from any reasonable viewing distance, the poster looks fantastic (but certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration if the new owner desired, but I would think most collectors would be extremely happy to display this great poster exactly as it is! Learn More about condition grades 
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