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Auction History Result a001 BALL OF FIRE linen half-sheet movie poster '41 Gary Cooper, Stanwyck Date Sold 1/3/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Ball of Fire, the classic 1941 Howard Hawks romantic opposites-attract comedy ("'I Love Him because he don't know how to kiss .... The Jerk!'"; "Hold on to your hat, Gary... A glamour dish is after your heart!"; "You'll laugh with your heart wide open at this whooping, yet warmly tender comedy-romance! It's Gary in top-form as a stiff-as-a-board professor who unbends with a bang... When a glamour-dish whose slang he's studying treats him to a lesson in curves!"; "Don't be a Drizzle-Puss... I'm just showing you... What 'YUM-YUM' means!"; "A new heart-note in laughter, bright with that Goldwyn glow!"; "Screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder"; VERY loosely based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with a gangster's showgirl girlfriend taking refuge with seven nerdy professors, and falling in love with one of them) starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Sugarpuss O'Shea), Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, Tully Marshall, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, and Ralph Peters 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: The poster had creases, pairs of staple holes, smudges, and some tears around the edges of the poster. There was an 8" tear in the right border that extends into the top of the letters of Cooper's last name. There were a few creases, smudges, and tears within the image. The poster was well backed. Linenbacking minimized the above defects, but the poster has not had very much touch up at all, so you can still see the defects from close up, but from any distance, they are really not at all noticeable or distracting. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and looks great! Note that the restorer did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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