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Auction History Result 1f2108 HERE COMES THE NAVY Italian 2p 1935 James Cagney, Gloria Stuart, different & ultra rare! Date Sold 12/21/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1935 (from the first release of this movie in Italy) Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian Two-Panel (known in Italy as a "4 Fogli") Movie Poster (2p; measures 55" x 78" [140 x 198 cm]) (Learn More) Here Comes the Navy, the 1934 Lloyd Bacon Naval military sailor romantic love triangle comedy ("Join the world and see the Navy!"; "All the thrills and glory of the U.S. fleet... in action!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a brash young sailor who resists learning from an older experienced sailor, and there is a beautiful young woman they are both interested in; Cagney would appear in several movies with this exact same plot, but in different settings, and it was also used with many other actors) starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Gloria Stuart, Frank McHugh, George Irving, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Robert Barrat, "and the U.S. Fleet". Note that the sailors in the movie are stationed on the U.S.S. Arizona, which just seven years later would be sunk at Pearl Harbor. 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 is an extremely rare pre-World War II Italian poster that we have NEVER auctioned in all our years of auctioning! Virtually no Italian posters survive from before, during, or right after World War II (mostly only pre-war heavy stock lobby cards, and even those are rare). Apparently there were many paper shortages in Italy during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! Note also that this Italian two-panel was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Finally note that the theater that used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many actual theater-used posters in multiple pieces). Condition: fair to good. The theater that used this poster glued the pieces together before putting them on display (this is typical of many actual theater-used posters in multiple pieces). The poster has some faint water stains on the back of parts of a few folds and a number of small brown stains on parts of the back of the poster that were on the outside when it was fully folded. The poster is mostly "all there and after proper restoration the poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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