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Auction History Result 4h515 HOW DO YOU DO 1sh '45 Bert Gordon The Mad Russian, Cheryl Walker & radio's Harry Von Zell! Date Sold 3/24/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) How Do You Do?, the 1945 Ralph Murphy crime murder mystery screwball comedy ("I got comedians, I got babes, I got detectives"; two of the stars from the Eddie Cantor radio show play themselves going on a vacation and getting involved in a murder mystery) starring Bert Gordon (billed as "Bert 'The Mad Russian' Gordon"), Harry von Zell (billed as "Radio's Harry von Zell"; "Radio's top announcer"), Cheryl Walker ("Sweetheart of 'Stage Door Canteen'"), Frank Albertson, Ella Mae Morse (billed as "The Cow-Cow Boogie Girl"), Claire Windsore, Keye Luke, Charles Middleton, Thomas Jackson, James Burke, Fred Kelsey, Matt McHugh, Leslie Denison, Frances Pierlot, and Sidney Marion. Note that the title of the movie was Bert Gordon's catch phrase in his radio appearances! 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 this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it very much looks like it was printed by "Leader Press". In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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