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Auction History Result 4g306 ONE TOUCH OF VENUS linen 1sh '48 sexy Ava Gardner, Robert Walker, great full-length art! Date Sold 12/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) One Touch of Venus, the 1948 William A. Seiter & Gregory La Cava New York City romantic fantasy comedy ("Love's little busy body... And how you'll love to watch Her work!"; "All this.. plus that old gleam in her eyes!"; "Broadway's devastating musical delight... Brought joyously to the screen!"; "It's that blushless babe who invented love!"; "Thrill to the lifting hit tune 'Speak Low' and other gay songs!"; "She not only invented love... she's got all the patents panting!"; "Suggested by the novel, 'The Tinted Venus'"; "Book by S.J. Perelman and Ogden Nash"; "For your eyes... for your signs!"; "Based on the Musical Play"; "Music by Kurt Weill"; about a statue of Venus that comes to life and turns into gorgeous Ava Gardner, and makes life very difficult for Robert Walker!) starring Robert Walker, Ava Gardner (in the title role as Venus), Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan, and Tom Conway. Note that the play this movie was based on introduced the wonderful haunting romantic song "Speak Low", written by Kurt Weill, with an assist from William Shakespeare, and in this movie, it is presented really well (although Ava Gardner had to be dubbed). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down the vertical foldline, and there was once tape on the back of that entire foldline. There was also a piece of tape on the back of the center of the top foldline. There were some tears and tiny paper loss in the right of the bottom foldline and a lesser amount of wear on the other folds and in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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