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Auction History Result

9m0340 20,000 YEARS IN SING SING linen pre-war Belgian 1932 art of Bette Davis & Spencer Tracy, rare!

Date Sold 8/8/2021
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 22 1/4" x 32 1/4" [57 x 82 cm]) (Learn More)

Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing, the 1932 Michael Curtiz New York maximum security prison romantic crime thriller ("The story of a thousand men without women... and of their women who can't do without men!"; "By Warden Lewis E. Lawes"; about a prisoner in New York's toughest maximum security prison who is given an honor pass by the warden to visit his injured girlfriend, and the warden's job is on the line if he doesn't return, and he goes the man who attacked her while given the pass, but he returns to face execution) starring Spencer Tracy ("the man doomed by her love"), Bette Davis (made the same year she had her breakout hit in "Cabin in the Cotton"!; "the girl outside who couldn't wait"), Arthur Byron, Louis Calhern, Lyle Talbot, and Hardie Albright. Note that this movie was remade in 1940 as "Castle on the Hudson" starring John Garfield and Ann Sheridan!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Belgian poster! Also note that this is a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster. Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!).

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Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had very minor fold wear. Someone had trimmed off the top blank border, but the poster was otherwise in nice condition prior to linenbacking. The person who backed the poster replaced the missing top border, but did not make an effort to match the color of the other borders, so it is noticeable. They likely did this because they did not think it would be noticeable when the poster is framed, and of course, any restorer could touch up that area to make it match better, without re-backing the poster, and otherwise, the poster is indeed in very nice condition!
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