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Auction History Result 6z306 NINOTCHKA linen 1sh R48 art of Greta Garbo & Melvyn Douglas, directed by Ernst Lubitsch! Date Sold 4/1/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1948 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Ninotchka, the 1939 Ernst Lubitsch Capitalism-vs-Communism romantic comedy ("Garbo laughs in the greatest comedy hit of the year!"; "A new laughing Garbo"; "Garbo Laughs in the Ernst Lubitsch Comedy Production"; "[Don't Pronounce It - See It!]"; "Based on the original story by Melchior Lengyel"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; with a screenplay written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch; about a Soviet Russian woman who travels to Paris, France on business and discovers there is more to life than what Communism offers) starring Greta Garbo (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Ninotchka), Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire, Bela Lugosi, Sig Ruman, Felix Bressart (the following year, he had a memorable role in Lubitsch's "The Shop Around the Corner"), and Alexander Granach. Note that this movie was remade in 1957 as a musical with Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse as "Silk Stockings". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that the poster says "AN MGM MASTERPIECE REPRINT" in the bottom right. This was a terminology used by MGM at this time for some re-releases, and it has caused some collectors to be confused! This poster is the original one-sheet from the 1948 re-release of this movie, and is NOT a "reprint"! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tears to the left and right of the top crossfold, including at the top of Garbo's forehead. It had minor wear on the foldlines. It had pinholes and smudges around the edges, with paper loss in the bottom right corner. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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