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Auction History Result 1t131 HOLIDAY linen 1sh '30 cool deco art of an extraordinary array of distinguished players! Date Sold 9/16/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 29 1/4" x 41 1/4" [74 x 105 cm]) (Learn More) Holiday, the 1930 Edward H. Griffith family relationship two-sisters-after-the-same-man romantic love triangle wedding comedy ("Astounding story of double life and double love!"; "Original Story from Play by Philip Barry"; "With an extraordinary array of distinguished players") starring Ann Harding (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames, and Hedda Hopper 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 does not have a company name at the bottom, but it very much looks like it was printed by "Leader Press". In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Also note that this one-sheet measures 29 1/4" x 41 1/4" [74 x 105 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had some tiny bits of paper loss in the top quarter of the vertical foldline and a 7" tear in the bottom center, 1" to the left of the vertical foldline. It had some tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some foldlines and some tears and paper loss in the blank borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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