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Auction History Result 9d216 CAREFREE linen 1sh '38 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers dancing together again, Irving Berlin Date Sold 6/2/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Carefree (released in other English-speaking countries as "Amanda"), the 1938 Mark Sandrich singing-and-dancing romantic musical comedy ("Let the rhythm ring!... Fred and Ginger are back again"; "Fred and Ginger together again!"; "So you think Fred and Ginger are good, eh?... Well, you ain't seen nothin' yet!... You haven't seen dancing until you see the greatest dancers in the world in the greatest picture they ever made!... Never before such romantic flair, such abandoned fun, such excitement and interest and delightful plot in an Astaire-Rogers offering!... Never before such richness of production!... And the four Berlin songs are said to be the best he ever wrote!..."; "It's honey for the jitterbugs, it's fun for you and me. The Dance you sing and swing and slam- That rhythm dream. The Yam!"; "Here they come!... Dancing to your heart's content!... Dashing, bubbling, floating on a cloud of rhythm through a romance that will make you sigh as much as you laugh, and thrill as much as you tap your toes! Welcome, Fred and Ginger, in you biggest hit of all!"; "See them do 'The Yam'"; "Lyrics and Music by Irving Berlin"; "Story and Adaptation by Dudley Nichols and Hagar Wilde") starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Ralph Bellamy, Luella Gear, Jack Carson, Clarence Kolb, Franklin Pangborn, and Walter Kingsford. Note that this was one of the nine wonderful movies that Astaire and Rogers made between 1933 and 1939 (they made one final movie, "The Barkleys of Broadway", eleven years later in 1949). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds. It had a 3" vertical tear 1" to the left of the top crossfold and a 4" tear 2" to the left of the middle crossfold, with a 2" tear 1" to the left of the bottom crossfold, and a 4" tear 3" to the left of the bottom crossfold. There were tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down the vertical foldline and a lesser amount on the horizontal folds. There were pinholes, creases, and a few tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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