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Auction History Result 7k143 CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS linen WC '37 art of Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew & Lionel Barrymore Date Sold 11/30/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous (released in Germany as "Manuel"), the classic 1937 Victor Fleming rough-Portuguese-sailor-befriends-spoiled-rich-kid-and-changes-his-life-forever seafaring adventure thriller ("The Screen's Greatest Adventure"; "As great as 'Mutiny on the Bounty'"; "Just as it stormed from the pen of Kipling comes the successor to 'Mutiny on the Bounty'"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by Rudyard Kipling) starring Freddie Bartholomew, Spencer Tracy (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Manuel), Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Charley Grapewin, John Carradine, Billy Gilbert, and Mickey Rooney NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fair to good. There was a 7" diagonal tear in the middle of the right of the poster, extending down into the center of Tracy's hat, and at the bottom of the tear, there was paper loss in the right of Tracy's face (just below the hat, and including the right edge of his eye and his ear). The window card was never folded across the middle, but there was a partially horizontal fold across the upper part of the image, running through the top of the "NS" of "CAPTAINS". There were pinholes and tears in the top blank area. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, and the restorer left alone the border defects, likely rightfully assuming they will not show when the poster is framed. The restorer did a pretty nice job re-creating the missing portion at the right end of Tracy's face, because it is not very noticeable from a reasonable viewing distance. But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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