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Auction History Result 6y0223 PUBLIC MENACE linen 1sh 1935 Public Enemy No. 1 wants to silence Jean Arthur forever, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/22/2020 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 Public Menace, the 1935 Erle C. Kenton romantic murder mystery melodrama ("The police want her to talk! Public Enemy No. 1 wants to silence her... forever!"; "Girl trails killer! The hunt is on for - The Public Menace"; "Even Public Enemy No. 1 is scared of her!"; a strange story of a Greek woman on a cruise ship who meets a reporter, and she asks him to marry her, so she can stay in the U.S., but he reasonably asks her why he should do it, and she tells him she has a great tip on a gangster, and the reporter marries her and the story is printed, but it turns out she made up the story, so the reporter is fired, and then she tries to make it up to him) starring Jean Arthur (as the Greek woman!), George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, and Robert Middlemass. Note that reviews of this movie indicate that it starts out as a sort of screwball romantic comedy, and then veers into melodrama, and that it doesn't succeed well at either. The following year, Jean Arthur would make a similar movie, called "The Whole Town's Talking", with Edward G. Robinson, and that veered between comedy and crime melodrama, and did so very successfully! Perhaps part of the reason this movie doesn't work well is that it started out as "Lady Beware" in 1934, with Miriam Hopkins in it in addition to Jean Arthur and George Murphy, and apparently her part was either re-cast or cut out, and then in 1935 it was re-titled to "Lady of New York" and no doubt the movie was changed quite a bit as well, and later in 1935, it finally became "Public Menace"! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a complete set of lobby cards, a glass slide, and a few stills from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this one-sheet, which we have never auctioned before! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the top and bottom crossfolds, with small paper loss at the middle crossfold. It had some tiny paper loss and small tears on parts of the folds. It had some pinholes, small tears, and tiny paper loss in small parts of the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects (and it seems likely that the border defects occurred after the poster was backed, probably because the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame). Learn More about condition grades 
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