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Auction History Result 9d370 SWING TIME linen 1sh '36 wonderful art of Fred Astaire dancing with pretty Ginger Rogers! Date Sold 6/2/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Swing Time, the 1936 George Stevens romantic love triangle musical dancing comedy ("With six new haunting melodies by Jerome Kern composer of 'Roberta'"; "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers in the captivating climax of their gay young lives!..."; about a man and woman who are supposed to marry others, but they end up falling in love with each other) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa, and Dennis O'Keefe. Note that this was one of the nine wonderful movies that Astaire and Rogers made between 1933 and 1939 (they made one final movie, "The Barkleys of Broadway", thirteen years later in 1949). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some creases and just a few tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some foldlines. There were some faint vertical stains in the center of the poster in the 3" to the left of the vertical foldline (perhaps caused by water dripping) and it slightly extended into the right of the first "A" of "ASTAIRE", and continued down through the poster, but it can only be seen in the very light portions of the poster. There were pinholes and some faint stains and smudges around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and the restorer chose to mostly leave alone the faint vertical stains described above (almost certainly because they are not very distracting and are only noticeable close up and in the light colored areas). I would think most collectors would be happy to display this great poster just as it is, because the defects described above are not very distracting, but certainly, any restorer could perform additional restoration, without re-backing the poster, and of course, it could also be completely re-backed, and after not much additional restoration, the poster will look really wonderful! Learn More about condition grades 
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