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Auction History Result B118 ARROWSMITH linen Aust daybill movie poster '31 Colman Date Sold 3/16/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (measures 15" x 39 1/2") (Learn More) Arrowsmith, the 1931 John Ford medical doctor romantic fictional biography melodrama ("The great American novel now becomes the great American motion picture!"; "He devoted his life to service... and his heart to the love of one woman"; "From the Nobel Prize novel by Sinclair Lewis"; about the life of a dedicated doctor, from his earliest days in medical school through a long distinguished career; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Ronald Colman (in the title role as Dr. Martin Arrowsmith), Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, Myrna Loy, and A.E. Anson. Note that there is something very ironic about the crediting United Artists used for the source novel. When Lewis wrote Arrowsmith, he was voted the Pulitzer Prize for it, but he refused it. In 1930, he was given the Nobel Prize for Literature, not specifically for any one novel, and he accepted it. Samuel Goldwyn, the producer of the movie, wanted to advertise that this was an award-winning novel, so he combined the two above facts to get the tagline "from the Nobel Prize novel", which is not strictly true! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was well restored, but you can see signs of the restoration from inches away (since most people look at posters framed on a wall from at least a few feet away, we don't feel this is a defect, but we feel it should be noted). See below for this poster's pre-restoration condition (we are the only major auction company we know of that shares this information with our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). very good. The borders of the poster were slightly tattered and new paper has been very carefully placed over much of the old paper (it was extremely well done, and I would bet that hardly anyone could tell, even close-up). There was a tear in the upper center running down from the "N" of "RONALD" to the "L" of "COLMAN". Overall the image area was in nice condition prior to restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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