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Auction History Result 5r0069 STREET SCENE 1/2sh 1931 King Vidor classic, Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., very rare! Date Sold 9/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Street Scene, the classic 1931 King Vidor New York City problems-of-the-poor romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Pulitzer Prize Drama by Elmer Rice"; a very complicated tale of a New York City tenement, where a middle-aged man shoots his wife's lover, and their beautiful daughter can escape the tenements by becoming the mistress of a well-to-do Jewish store owner, but after her mother is shot by her father, she decides to leave the tenements behind, to find a better life) starring Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, Greta Granstedt, and Adele Watson. Note that this movie was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1928, but there was a social worker in the play who is very unsympathetic to the poor people she is supposed to help, and pressure was brought on the play's producer Samuel Goldwyn to change the character, and he proposed she become a secret Soviet agent who was planning to blow up the tenement building so that Clarence Darrow would be elected President, and apparently that scared people enough that the character remained similar to how she had been in the original play. 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 half-sheet! Also note that this poster has tape repairs on the back (see below), and it would not make sense to roll it, as doing so would surely greatly lessen the condition. Therefore we must be sent in a very large flat package. Please bear that extra shipping cost in mind BEFORE placing a bid on this poster! Condition: fair to good. The poster had tears and stains down the vertical fold, with paper loss at the crossfold. It had a lesser number of tears on the horizontal fold, but it had paper loss at the left and right ends of that fold. It also had tears and paper loss around the edges. The entire poster had darkened somewhat and is fragile. Someone performed slight amateur restoration to the above defects. If I owned this poster, I would surely have professional restoration performed, but bear in mind its many defects and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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