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Auction History Result m556 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD linen one-sheet movie poster '63 Peck classic! Date Sold 5/30/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) To Kill a Mockingbird, the classic 1962 Robert Mulligan (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) courtroom lawyer legal family relationship interracial relations melodrama ("The most beloved and widely read Pulitzer Prize Winner now comes vividly alive on the screen!"; "Based upon Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'"; "The most beloved and widely read book of the decade now comes vividly alive on the screen!"; "Pulitzer Prize winner"; "The Pulitzer Prize novel that has become a legend in its own time is now a memorable motion picture!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a noble southern lawyer who defends a black African American man falsely accused of raping a white woman, and this courageous act puts his family in jeopardy) starring Gregory Peck (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Atticus Finch), Mary Badham (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as "Scout"), Phillip Alford ("as Jem"), John Megna (as Dill; perhaps based on Harper's friend Truman Capote), Ruth White, Paul Fix, Brock Peters (as Tom Robinson), Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Collin Wilcox Paxton (as Mayella), Robert Duvall (in his first role; as "Boo Radley", who was described in some of the advertising as a "mentally-retarded recluse", which is completely wrong!), William Windom (as The Prosecutor), James Anderson, and Estelle Evans (as the maid Calpurnia). Note that for many years, it was believed that the author of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee, had only written this one book and never wrote another (she was childhood friends with Truman Capote, and most believe John Megna's character in the movie is based on Capote, and some believe that Capote helped Lee write the novel). But in 2014, it was discovered that Lee had written an earlier novel, called "Go Set a Watchman", before "To Kill a Mockingbird", but it was never published until 2015, and was published exactly as it was written, in 2015 (Lee was 88 years old at the time of publishing, and did not publicize the "new" book)! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked and during the backing process, its defects were repaired and it now looks nice. From any reasonable viewing distance, you can't see what restoration was done. It may have had only very minor defects, or it may have had more significant defects that were well restored. It is possible that you can see SOME slight traces of the restoration from a distance, but if so, we try clearly note it below. You can tell which of the above is the case for this particular poster by reading our "pre-restoration" description and also by looking at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). The poster had very minor wear along the foldlines and there were pinholes in the corners. The poster had creases and tears and some tiny areas of paper loss in some parts of the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed. The restorer placed small amounts of new paper over some small areas of the blank borders, but otherwise performed very little restoration in the image area, because that portion of the poster was in nice condition prior to backing. The poster displays great! Learn More about condition grades 
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