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Auction History Result

#2268 BALL OF FIRE linen 1sh '41 Cooper

Date Sold 8/19/2003
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Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

Ball of Fire, the classic 1941 Howard Hawks romantic opposites-attract comedy ("'I Love Him because he don't know how to kiss .... The Jerk!'"; "Hold on to your hat, Gary... A glamour dish is after your heart!"; "You'll laugh with your heart wide open at this whooping, yet warmly tender comedy-romance! It's Gary in top-form as a stiff-as-a-board professor who unbends with a bang... When a glamour-dish whose slang he's studying treats him to a lesson in curves!"; "Don't be a Drizzle-Puss... I'm just showing you... What 'YUM-YUM' means!"; "A new heart-note in laughter, bright with that Goldwyn glow!"; "Screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder"; VERY loosely based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with a gangster's showgirl girlfriend taking refuge with seven nerdy professors, and falling in love with one of them) starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Sugarpuss O'Shea), Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, Tully Marshall, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, and Ralph Peters
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Condition: good to very good. Prior to linenbacking, the poster was in good to very good condition. There were holes at each crossfold. The poster had tears, smudges, and creases around the edges and, to a lesser extent, along the foldlines. The restorer who backed the poster put a fair amount of white paint in the borders and background areas to try to "even out" the background. Linenbacking has minimized the poster's defects, but they are still somewhat noticeable, although I do not think they are all that distracting.
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