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Auction History Result 3p199 LADY EVE linen 1sh R49 Preston Sturges directed, art of Barbara Stanwyck & Henry Fonda! Date Sold 12/7/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1949 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 25 1/2" x 39 3/4" [65 x 101 cm]) (Learn More) The Lady Eve, the classic 1941 Preston Sturges romantic gambling con man idle rich mistaken identity screwball comedy ("Barbara Stanwyck has Henry Fonda Bewitched and Bewildered in The Lady Eve"; "Barbara's Got Henry Falling For Her!..."; "Oops! There He Goes Again!"; "He Down For The Third Time..."; "Right into Barbara's arms... she's got him now - and does he love it!"; "Another Preston Sturges Hit!"; "This miss's kiss is packed with blisses! Should I run or make her Mrs.? Trouble is. She reminisces. What a dizzy Eden this is!"; "Screenplay based on a story by Monckton Hoffe"; "Written and directed by Preston Sturges"; about a nerdy anthropologist on an ocean liner voyage, who gets swindled by an old gambler/cheat and his beautiful daughter, and later, she tries to do it again by impersonating a completely different woman, but he is sure she is the woman he met before) starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Martha O'Driscoll, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Janet Beecher, Melville Cooper, and Robert Greig. Note that the credit "Screenplay based on a story by Monckton Hoffe" sounds reminiscent of a W.C. Fields credit for himself under a wacky pseudonym, but actually, Monckton Hoffe is a real man, who was an Irish playwright, who worked in Hollywood mostly in the late 1920s through the early 1940s, but "The Lady Eve" is far and away his most famous credit! 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 the last time we auctioned a first release one-sheet from this classic 1941 movie, it auctioned for $7,100 (we are currently auctioning an example of that first release one-sheet in a separate auction!). This 1949 re-release was issued just eight years later, and yet it will sell for a fraction of that price, making it a very attractive alternative to someone who doesn't want to spend the money required to purchase the first release poster! Note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 25 1/2" x 39 3/4" [65 x 101 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The poster had small paper loss at the crossfolds and tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down the vertical foldline, with a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. Parts of the blank borders had been trimmed off. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. It was backed to linen with no excess, and then framed, and the reds of the poster greatly faded over the time it was displayed, and also the borders (which were not replaced) were taped to the mat around the edges, so there are now stains and tiny paper loss in the parts of the blank borders that remain. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have further restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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