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Auction History Result 9k034 WINGS IN THE DARK insert 1934 profile of Cary Grant & Myrna Loy + airplane art, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/7/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Wings in the Dark, the 1934 James Flood stunt airplane aviation romantic melodrama ("Death if she loses... $50,000 and love if she wins!"; a wild story of an aeronautical engineer who wants to create an automated pilot that will let pilots fly even under the most adverse weather conditions; he meets a famous female aviatrix, and they start a romance; he is blinded in an industrial accident, but he keeps on with his research, but because no one will fund a blind engineer, his girlfriend secretly raises money for him, including on a dangerous Moscow to New York non-stop flight!) starring Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Dean Jagger, Russell Hopton, and Lightning (the German Shepherd dog!). Note that Myrna Loy's character was based on Amelia Earhart, who would tragically disappear on a solo flight three years later. Also note that this was Cary Grant's first pairing with Myrna Loy. They would not appear together again in the 1930s, but in the 1940s, they made two very memorable movies, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" and "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer", and one wishes they had made many more movies together! 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 first release 1934 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a single lobby card, a window card (17 years ago!), and a few stills from this movie until we received this insert! Note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. Note that because this poster was paperbacked onto a thicker paper backing, it CAN'T be sent rolled (someone could conceivably roll it or try to do so, but we think it would have a strong chance of lessening its condition, so we will only send it in a large flat package, unless the buyer insists, and then they would be responsible for any damage). What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. Prior to paperbacking, the poster was mounted to a board. It also had a 1/4" x 1 1/4" rectangle of paper loss in the top right of Cary Grant's forehead, extending into the yellow background to the right of it. It had a tiny amount of paper loss on the folds. It had some pinholes and paper loss in the blank borders. It had a 1 1/2" tear near the middle of the left border, extending into the light blue background. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was removed from the board backing by a top restorer and expertly paperbacked, and it now displays really nicely! Learn More about condition grades 
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