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Scarlet Letters, the 1940s STD venereal disease sexploitation pseudo-documentary ("Notice! If you will be embarrassed by these authentic pictures - please do not attend"; "Fearless - Bold shocking facts about veneral deseases [sic]"; "Exposed!"; "V. D. J. D."; "Shattered hopes! Tangled lives!"). If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know.

Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this one-sheet! It is a special poster, because some distributor of these kinds of movies (almost surely in the 1940s) made one-sheets with this basic design (with the "Exposed!" and the sexy girl art at top, but with different movie titles in the circular area, although the taglines are the same). So we think these are 1940s roadshow re-releases (although, of course, the posters that look like "first release", could also be from roadshow releases).

Note that this poster does not have a company name at the bottom, but it is similar to posters printed by "Leader Press" or "the other company". A constant headache for theaters (especially those showing burlesque) 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.

Note that in recent months we auctioned a collection of sexploitation one-sheets that included many rare titles from a single collector, and last month we auctioned the last of that collection. NOW, we have been consigned a different collection which includes even more very rarely seen titles! In this set of auctions we auctioned the first group of one-sheet from this new collection, and there are 148 different ones(all are in separate auctions), and they include a number of posters that we have only auctioned once or twice before. There are also a number with great images or taglines. This is an excellent opportunity to add one or more of these rare one-sheets to your collection, and, like the previous collection we auctioned, this consignor also only had one of each title, so on the rare ones, it may be quite some time before we offer the same title again!

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