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Auction History Result 7e256 LASSIE COME HOME linen style C 1sh '43 great art of young Roddy McDowall & his beloved Collie! Date Sold 3/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style C One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Lassie Come Home, the classic 1943 Fred M. Wilcox collie canine dog family melodrama ("The picture that's true to life!"; "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor Triumph!"; "Based on the novel by Eric Knight, author of 'This Above All'"; "Eric Knight's great dog story 'Lassie Come Home'"; "All the thrilling and amazing tricks that made Lassie the most famous dog in the world.") starring Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, Lassie (in the title role), and Elizabeth Taylor. Note that this was Elizabeth Taylor's second movie, when she was 10 years old, and she had very low billing in this movie and the previous one. She would have two more movie roles with no billing at all in "Jane Eyre" and "White Cliffs of Dover", but then in 1945, she starred in "National Velvet", which made her a star. So her next movie, which was two years later, was a sequel to this movie called "Courage of Lassie", and she was given star billing, after having been seventh billed in this movie (and un-billed on the posters!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and a small area of paper loss in the top foldline 1" to the left of that. There were some scuffs and tiny dots of paper loss in the top of the vertical foldline and some pinholes in the borders. There were a few faint water stains in the edges of the blank borders and 2" of water staining and tiny paper loss in the left edge of the top foldline. Other than the above basically minor defects, the poster was in really nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was backed onto a thin linen with no restoration and with no excess linen around the edges of the poster. The poster displays great just as it is, but certainly, it could be easily removed from the thin backing and re-backed, and have restoration performed to the slight defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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