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DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM USA DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM USA 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2s0985 DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM USA linen 1sh 1946 all-black version of Sadie Thompson, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/2" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Dirty Gertie From Harlem, U.S.A., the 1946 Spencer Williams New York City/Caribbean tropical island black African American musical ("All Colored Cast"; "Original Story by True T. Thompson"; loosely based on the story Miss Thompson by W. Somerset Maugham; about a prostitute who has to leave Harlem and ends up on a tropical island, where she entices good men to go bad) starring Francine Everette (in the title role as Gertie La Rue), Inez Newell, July Jones, Don Wilson, and Katherine Moore. Note that sadly, the director of this movie was handcuffed by having almost no budget at all, especially difficult when you were trying to create the illusion of filming on a real tropical island! Reviewers say that while the movie is entertaining and that star Francine Everett is terrific, the production values are so low that they severely hurt the movie. Strangest of all is director Williams playing a female fortune teller, and while he does wear a dress, he did not shave off his mustache, and he speaks in his usual deep voice! We wonder if perhaps the actress intended to play that role did not show up and that Williams stepped in to take over her part, with minimal effort! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned five lobby cards and a single 8x10 still from this movie (and NO other movie paper of any kind) until we received this one-sheet! We don't know why no posters seem to exist from this movie, but we were delighted to be consigned this poster! Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/2" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss on parts of some folds, with tears in the bottom quarter of the vertical fold. It had some small tears and small areas of paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. In spite of the defects and the restoration, the poster displays pretty well, and while one would prefer a better condition example of this poster, it is incredibly rare! Learn More about condition grades 
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