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Auction History Result 9d692 PURPLE HEART 1sh '44 cool artwork of Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Sam Levene! Date Sold 12/22/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Darryl F. Zanuck's The Purple Heart, the 1944 Lewis Milestone World War II (WWII) Japan military POW (prisoner of war) airplane aviation bomber melodrama ("Now it can be told - The astounding drama behind the headlines when 'Yanks Bomb Tokyo'"; "The astounding drama behind the headlines when Yanks bombed Tokyo!"; "Written for the screen by Jerome Cady"; "Technical adviser Otto Tolischus"; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck) starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'Shea, Don 'Red' Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene, and Richard Loo. Note that Otto Tolischus was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in Tokyo who was imprisoned by the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was released after five months as part of a prisoner exchange, and went on to write two books about his experiences in Japan! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There is a 6" tear in the middle of the top edge of the poster that has been repaired with tape from the back. There is a small area of paper loss in the man's forehead at upper left as well as some tattering and tack holes around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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