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Auction History Result 5a0272 ONE TOUCH OF VENUS linen Danish 1950 sexy full-length Ava Gardner, big city skyline, rare! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1950 (from the first release of this movie in Denmark) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Danish Movie Poster (measures 24" x 33 1/2" [61 x 85 cm]) (Learn More) One Touch of Venus, the 1948 William A. Seiter & Gregory La Cava New York City romantic fantasy comedy ("Love's little busy body... And how you'll love to watch Her work!"; "All this.. plus that old gleam in her eyes!"; "Broadway's devastating musical delight... Brought joyously to the screen!"; "It's that blushless babe who invented love!"; "Thrill to the lifting hit tune 'Speak Low' and other gay songs!"; "She not only invented love... she's got all the patents panting!"; "Suggested by the novel, 'The Tinted Venus'"; "Book by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash"; "For your eyes... for your signs!"; "Based on the Musical Play"; "Music by Kurt Weill"; about a statue of Venus that comes to life and turns into gorgeous Ava Gardner, and makes life very difficult for Robert Walker!) starring Robert Walker, Ava Gardner (in the title role as Venus), Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan, and Tom Conway. Note that the play this movie was based on introduced the wonderful haunting romantic song "Speak Low", written by Kurt Weill, with an assist from William Shakespeare, and in this movie, it is presented really well (although Ava Gardner had to be dubbed). 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this poster, and that was 13 years ago. The buyer of that poster had it linenbacked and has now reconsigned it to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tiny creases, scuffs, and bits of surface paper loss on parts of the folds, with pinholes around the edges and tears in the bottom right corner. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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