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Auction History Result 1z253 PHILADELPHIA STORY linen style C 1sh 1940 Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, rare! Date Sold 12/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style C One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Philadelphia Story, the classic 1940 George Cukor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Pennsylvania romantic love triangle wedding comedy ("Howl with your happiest Hollywood stars!"; "Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - in love!"; "Based on the play by Philip Barry"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a divorced socialite who is planning to remarry and have no press coverage, but her ex-husband is jealous, and he arranges through blackmail to have a reporter and a photographer attend, and many complications ensue) starring Cary Grant ("...he's a smoothie!"), Katharine Hepburn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "...she's a wild red-head!"), James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart; winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "...he's a devil in the moonlight!"), Ruth Hussey (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, and Virginia Weidler. Note that James Stewart won the Best Actor Academy Award for this film and many feel it was to repay him for not winning the year before for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but that is especially ironic, because he was given the Oscar over Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath, who surely deserved it! Also note that this movie was remade in 1955 as the musical High Society, with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra in the lead roles. 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 1940 one-sheets from this movie are incredibly rare. We have never auctioned either style of one-sheet from this movie until we received this style C one-sheet! Not only that, but ANY first release posters larger than a window card are also incredibly rare. We auctioned a jumbo window card 23 years ago, and an insert 28 years ago (and the insert sold for $3,520). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the top crossfold, with two tiny areas of paper loss above it. It had some tiny tears and separation scattered down the vertical fold, and someone had once put some pieces of tape on parts of that area. It had a much lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds. It had some pinholes around the edges, with some paper loss scattered in the top blank border, but only blank white paper was affected. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. A really talented restorer did an excellent job backing this poster, and it displays really well! Learn More about condition grades 
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