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Auction History Result 1061 SO YOU WANT TO BE POPULAR linenbacked one-sheet movie poster '46 Joe McDoakes Date Sold 12/21/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) So You Want to Be Popular, the 1949 Richard L. Bare comedy short starring George O'Hanlon (as Joe McDoakes), Art Gilmore, and Clifton Young. Note that this poster is a "stock" poster for the "Joe (So You Want) McDoakes Comedies" series from Warner Bros.-Vitaphone short subjects. Theaters would buy this poster, and then could either hand add the name of the specific short they were showing in the square area at bottom right, or they could buy a printed snipe that they would glue into that area. The poster offered here has a title very neatly handwritten in that box (it almost looks like it could have been overprinted, but we believe it was not). If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and it had defects which were repaired during the linenbacking process (which we describe below, as well as the quality of the restoration, if I thought there was something about the restoration worth commenting on!). You should also look at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). the poster had tiny areas of paper loss down the vertical foldline; there were two 2" tears in the right of the bottom of the image; there was tiny paper loss on the bottom foldline 1" to the left of the crossfold. The poster had missing pieces and tears in the blank borders, and the person who did the restoration put new blank white paper over all the borders to even out the appearance (but the small writing at the bottom of the poster was not covered over). This is a common technique used by several top restorers. It is done so well that the majority of collectors are not even aware it has been done, and many do not feel it to be a significant detraction (since it is only blank white area). Overall, the poster was nicely linenbacked, and looks real good! Learn More about condition grades 
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