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Auction History Result 9m0012 CHAINED linen 40x60 1934 cool different art of Joan Crawford & Clark Gable, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Chained, the 1934 Clarence Brown ocean cruise romantic love triangle melodrama ("When she's in his arms ...it's the grandest thrill the screen can give!"; about a woman who is a mistress of a rich older man, and while on a cruise with him, meets a poor but handsome young man and falls in love, but she is "chained" to the rich man!) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor, and Akim Tamiroff 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 never before auctioned this 40x60! 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. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had a long vertical tear starting in the bottom border and going up through Crawford's neck and ending in her upper lip. It also had pinholes, tears, and tiny paper loss in the borders. It was folded horizontally above the title, with some tiny tears and tiny paper loss along that fold. It had a tear in the upper right border extending slightly into Gable's hair. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this poster with no defects, but we don't know that another example exists anywhere in the world! Learn More about condition grades 
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