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Auction History Result 1z354 WOMAN OF THE YEAR linen style C 1sh 1942 art of Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn, very rare! Date Sold 12/5/2019 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) Woman of the Year, the classic 1942 George Stevens newspaper journalism baseball sports romantic comedy ("The picture of the year!"; "Original screen play by Ring Lardner, Jr., and Michael Kanin") starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Minor Watson, William Bendix, Roscoe Karns, Agnes Moorehead, and Grant Withers. Note that this was the first of nine movies real life lovers Tracy and Hepburn starred in together, and many people consider it the best of the nine! 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this style C one-sheet, and that was 26 years ago, when it sold for $863! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny bits of paper loss scattered on parts of several folds, with pinholes around the edges. The bottom border was folded back at one time, and there was a 1" tear near the center of the bottom border. It had a few smudges and stains in background areas. 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 little restoration to the defects described above. Note that either the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster, or possibly the owner of the poster chose to carefully trim off the excess, so that the poster would fit in a frame. While I would think that many collectors would be happy to display this poster as it is, certainly any talented restorer could remove the poster from the old linen and re-back it. Learn More about condition grades 
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