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Auction History Result 4z0052 SOME LIKE IT HOT style Y 30x40 1959 sexy Marilyn Monroe, Curtis & Lemmon in drag, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/31/2023![]() Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Style Y Thirty by Forty Movie Poster (30x40; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Some Like It Hot, the classic 1959 Billy Wilder (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic musical cross-dressing drag crime comedy ("Hot!!!"; about two out of work musicians who happen to witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, and they need to leave town in a hurry, but the only jobs they can get is with an all-girl band, and they dress in drag, and one of the band members is Marilyn Monroe!) starring Marilyn Monroe ("and her bosom companions"), Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), George Raft, Pat O'Brien, and Joe E. Brown (the great star of 1920s and 1930s slapstick comedy, who practically steals this movie with a wonderful comic performance and an unforgettable final line!) 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 two examples of the style Z 30x40 (and the last one was 9 years ago), but we have NEVER auctioned this style Y 30x40! Note that this poster has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the poster onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the poster still looks and feels like an original poster (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the poster no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with posters that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the posters it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: fair to good. The poster had pinholes, tears, small paper loss, creases, smudges, and stains around the edges. It had been folded like a one-sheet and it had creases and small tears on parts of the folds, with some creases, smudges, scuffs, and stains scattered throughout the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to restoration. The poster was restored a number of years ago, and the restorer likely did a pretty good job, but they needed to paint over much of the red and white background areas. Over the years since it was restored, the white background area has very unevenly discolored, and it absolutely needs to be re-restored. Please do not bid on this extremely rare poster unless you have read the above carefully and have looked closely at our super-sized image, and are prepared to have this poster properly restored. Learn More about condition grades ![]()
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