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Auction History Result 6a202 CITY LIGHTS linen Swedish '31 completely different image of Charlie Chaplin at water fountain! Date Sold 7/16/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Swedish Movie Poster (measures approximately 27" x 39") (Learn More) City Lights, the classic 1931 Charlie Chaplin silent romantic comedy melodrama (written and directed by Charles Chaplin; Chaplin is a Tramp who befriends a blind flower seller, and he loves her, but is afraid she can't return his love; the movie includes a memorable boxing scene, and a wonderful final scene where the girl is cured of her blindness) starring Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, and Hank Mann. Note that Charlie Chaplin stood alone against the coming of sound to movies, and he made this movie as a silent movie, although it had a soundtrack which included the song "Smile", which Chaplin himself wrote. He would release another silent movie, "Modern Times", in 1936, and then finally agreed to make sound pictures! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. The poster had two evenly spaced vertical foldlines and three horizontal folds. There were extra vertical folds slightly to the right of each of the regular vertical folds. There were some dots of paper loss at the crossfolds and a very few creases and tiny tears on parts of some foldlines. There was a 2" tear near the center of the top border and a 6" crease in the upper left border. Someone attached the poster to a wall with pieces of tape in the corners and a few in the borders, and that tape is long gone, but it yellowed the paper where the tape was. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer linenbacked the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, but they are really not very distracting, because most of them are in the borders (and any restorer could touch them up, either with or without re-backing the poster). Learn More about condition grades 
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