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Auction History Result 9z097 CHINA GIRL linen Aust daybill '42 art of sexy Gene Tierney & George Montgomery, Ben Hecht! Date Sold 9/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 13 1/4" x 30 1/4" [34 x 77 cm]) (Learn More) China Girl, the 1942 Henry Hathaway pre-World War II (WWII) military newsreel cameraman interracial romance romantic melodrama ("There's action every pounding moment!"; "The whole Jap army on his trail... a bewitching beauty in his heart!"; "Produced and Written by Ben Hecht"; although the movie was written after Pearl Harbor, it was set before the U.S. entered the war, and it is clear that writer/producer Ben Hecht was aiming to further inflame anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S.; Montgomery is a newsreel photographer covering the war against Japan in China and Burma, and he falls for a half-Chinese girl played by strikingly beautiful Gene Tierney) starring Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Alan Baxter, Sig Ruman, Philip Ahn, and Robert Blake NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had scattered paper loss in the bottom two horizontal folds, with tiny paper loss in the left of the top horizontal fold. It had some pinholes and small paper loss in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that the restorer left a tiny bit of excess linen around all four sides of the poster (they left a small border in order to protect the poster from handling damage, but they did not leave a larger border, to allow it to more easily fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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