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Auction History Result 6p056 MIDNIGHT COWBOY linen Polish 23x33 '73 John Schlesinger classic, best different Swierzy art! Date Sold 4/14/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1973 (from the first release of this movie in Poland) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Polish Movie Poster (23x33; measures 23" x 32 1/2" [58 x 83 cm]) (Learn More) Midnight Cowboy, the classic 1969 John Schlesinger (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) New York City male prostitution melodrama ("Based on the novel by James Leo Herlihy"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; about a naive Texan who moves to New York to become a male prostitute for wealthy women, and ends up in a close relationship with a male street hustler) starring Dustin Hoffman (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Ratso Rizzo), Jon Voight (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Joe Buck), Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Ruth White, Sylvia Miles (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Barnard Hughes, Viva, Gastone Rossilli, Ultra Violet, and Bob Balaban. This was the first (and only) adult movie to win a Best Picture Oscar. Dustin Hoffman not winning the Best Actor Academy Award is certainly the biggest mistake in the history of the Academy Awards! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Waldemar Swierzy Important Added Info: Note that we have auctioned many thousands of Polish posters over the years, but we have NEVER auctioned this poster before! No doubt this is because it has such an iconic image for a great movie that nobody who owns the poster wants to let it go! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had very minor wear on the foldlines and in the borders. Someone mounted it onto a very thin linen backing with slight excess, but they did no restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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