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Auction History Result 7x246 MARINES ARE COMING linen 1sh '34 stone litho of gay William Haines in love triangle, rare! Date Sold 6/7/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Marines are Coming, the 1934 David Howard United States Marine Corps (USMC) military south-of-the-border romantic love triangle military action war melodrama (Haines is a Marine Lieutenant who always gets in trouble, and he has a rivalry with a "by-the-book" Captain, and he steals the Captain's girl and marries her; but he gets in a drunken fight in a casino in Tijuana, Mexico while with an old girlfriend, and his wife leaves him, and he resigns from the Marines, but later reenlists as a Private; he is sent to serve in Mexico, and by an amazing coincidence, he is under the command of his old rival, the Captain, but he ends up catching a bunch of bandits and becomes a hero) starring William Haines, Esther Ralston, Conrad Nagel, Armida, Edgar Kennedy, and George Regas. Note that William Haines was the most famous "in the closet" gay film star of the silent and early sound era. He refused to hide his homosexuality, and he left the movie business at the height of his career and became a famous interior decorator, and he stayed with his lover, Jimmie Shields, for the next 50 years. This movie was his very final movie. We wonder if he was cast as a tough Marine entangled with two different women in order to help hide his homosexuality (if so, it obviously didn't work!). 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 first release 1934 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never sold even a single movie poster from this movie (only two lobby cards) until we received this one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss scattered down the vertical fold and in the middle horizontal fold. There were tears in the upper right red background going through the brim of Haines' hat. There were pinholes, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was really nicely backed by a talented restorer, and likely no one would realize that there was paint restoration to the defects described above unless it was pointed out to them, and even then, they would have to look closely at the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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