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Auction History Result 7w091 DARK WATERS linen 1sh R51 was love or madness to be Merle Oberon's fate, Franchot Tone Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1951) Re-release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Dark Waters, the 1944 Andre De Toth crime film noir mystery thriller ("Have you ever really been Afraid?"; "Was Love or madness to be her fate?"; "From the Saturday Night Post's most thrilling story success."; "Original story by Frank and Marian Cockrell"; about a woman who has an abnormal fear of water, and a pair of visitors come to her home and decide to drive her crazy, so they can take over her estate, and they are willing to murder her family too!) starring Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell, Fay Bainter, John Qualen, Elisha Cook Jr., Rex Ingram, and Nina Mae McKinney NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, either because the restorer did not do a very good job, or because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had small paper loss at the crossfolds, tears and tiny areas of paper loss in the vertical foldline, and a lesser amount in the other folds, plus some tears and stains in the borders. The poster was not that well backed, because you can see signs of the above general defects and the restoration of the defects (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects). I would think few collectors would want to display it as it is, without someone performing some additional restoration. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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