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THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL banner, silk OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3d280 THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL silk banner '39 fugitive John Garfield hunted by ruthless men, rare! Date Sold 12/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 39 3/4" x 53" [101 x 135 cm]) (Learn More) They Made Me a Criminal, the classic 1939 Busby Berkeley romantic juvenile crime mystery thriller ("I am a fugitive... I am hunted by ruthless men! I am shunned by decent women! I am doomed to hide forever"; "From a Novel by Bertam Millhauser and Beulah Marie Dix") starring John Garfield ("The Sensational Discovery of 'Four Daughters'"; "The sensational star of 'Four Daughters'"), Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, The Dead End Kids (including Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and Gabriel Dell), and Barbara Pepper 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 in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned around a dozen of them in our many years of auctioning), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! We have just been consigned a remarkable find of TWENTY THREE of these silk banners! That is double the amount we auctioned in all our previous 25 years of auctioning. Each of these 23 silk banners are currently at auction individually. This is a very rare opportunity to purchase one or many of this extremely rare size of original 1930s and 1940s movie posters! Condition: good to very good. The banner has creases around the edges and creases down the middle left, including in Garfield's image. There are some light stains in the letters of "CRIMINAL" in the title. Otherwise, the banner is in surprisingly nice condition. I would think that a professional or talented amateur could carefully press or even "iron" the banner to remove the creases, and the light staining in the bottom of the title is not very distracting, and certainly, this banner could be displayed exactly as it is. Note that banners like these are extremely rare (see above) and the few that survive often have deterioration in the silk or in the fringe, and sometimes the pole is missing or damaged. Some of this collection of 23 silk banners that this banner was found with have survived in better condition than the majority of the similar silk banners we have seen in the past. Learn More about condition grades 
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