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Auction History Result 5p0409 COMRADE X linen style B 3sh 1940 sexy Communist Hedy Lamarr & Clark Gable, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Comrade X, the 1940 King Vidor Communist Russia Communism newspaper journalism reporter romantic comedy ("The funniest Love comedy since 'Ninotchka'!"; "Screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer"; Billy Wilder's Ninotchka with Garbo as a female Communist had been a big hit the previous year, so MGM made this movie with a similar plot and with Hedy Lamarr as the beautiful female Communist, and they even referenced Ninotchka in their advertising!) starring Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart, Eve Arden, Sig Ruman, and Natasha Lytess 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 large posters from this movie are extremely rare. We have never before auctioned a three-sheet from this movie before we were consigned this poster, and we have also never auctioned a six-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small tears and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds, including in the part of the fold running through Lamarr's forehead. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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