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Auction History Result Lot #: VHP7 050 TOBACCO ROAD style B half-sheet movie poster '41 Gene Tierney, Ford  Date Sold 7/11/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 7 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Tobacco Road, the 1941 John Ford Georgia poor uneducated family comedy melodrama ("At last... it's on the screen!"; based on the classic novel by Erskine Caldwell, which became a Broadway play in 1933, and set a then-record of 3,281 performances, running until 1941; when the play finally ended, 20th Century-Fox and producer Darryl F. Zanuck made this film version of it, and because it had taken so long to reach the screen, it was given the tagline "At last... It's on the screen!"; about a family of uneducated Georgia farmers who have valuable land that is ultimately taken away from them, and director John Ford had difficulty translating the play to the screen, because of the censorship of the day; Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews were the romantic leads, but they ended up with only a few minutes of screen time together, and Charley Grapewin's character "stole" the picture!) starring Charley Grapewin, Marjorie Rambeau, Gene Tierney (in her third movie role!), William Tracy, Dana Andrews, Slim Summerville, Ward Bond, Grant Mitchell, and Zeffie Tilbury 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 this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Condition: good. many tears around the edges of the poster (some repaired with tape from the front); paper loss in three corners; smudging and staining across the right top of the poster in the top border and into the edge of the yellow background lesser smudges and creases around the other borders; pencil writing in the middle of the bottom border; some creases and scuffs in the area where the title is; a circular stain in the neck of the man holding Tierney. While this poster does have considerable defects, it is fortunate that most of them are around the edges of the poster, and that the image area has relatively few defects. A talented restorer could surely paperback this poster and make it look wonderful, without hardly any paint anywhere within the central image area! Learn More about condition grades 
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