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Auction History Result 7w051 ALI BABA & THE FORTY THIEVES linen Spanish/U.S. 1sh '43 art of Maria Montez, Jon Hall & Turhan Bey! Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (SpanUS 1sh; printed in Spanish in the U.S. for Spanish speaking audiences; 27" x 41") (Learn More) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the 1944 Arthur Lubin Arabian romantic desert fantasy adventure thriller ("Wild nights of sheer delights! Burning Days of Bold Adventure!") starring Maria Montez, Jon Hall (in the title role as Ali Baba), Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Fortunio Bonanova, Frank Puglia, Ramsay Ames, Moroni Olsen, and Kurt Katch 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 was printed in the United States for use at theaters with Spanish speaking audiences (this was done most by MGM, starting in the 1930s, but it was done by the other major studios as well, and often the posters would have the exact same image as the English language poster, except the writing would be in Spanish, and often there would be an added "Toda en Espanol!", meaning "Entirely in Spanish!", printed within the image). Condition: good to very good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had tiny dots of paper loss in the vertical foldline and a few others on the horizontal foldline and in the image. There were pinholes, creases, tears, and areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I can imagine some collectors displaying this poster just as it is, and accepting the defects and signs of restoration, although other collectors would only display it if it had additional restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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