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Auction History Result 5p0953 DAMSEL IN DISTRESS linen style B 1/2sh 1937 Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Burns & Allen, rare! Date Sold 12/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) A Damsel in Distress, the 1937 George Stevens Americans-in-England romantic musical comedy ("Music by George Gershwin"; "Lyrics by Ira Gershwin"; "From the story by P.G. Wodehouse"; oddly, this was a remake of a 1919 movie based on a P.G. Wodehouse story, with much music by George and Ira Gershwin; the grafting of musical comedy onto a serious story was not received well at the box office, but the movie is worth seeing for its great star power) starring Fred Astaire, George Burns & Gracie Allen (Burns & Allen of 1950s TV fame!), Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner, Ray Noble, Constance Collier, Montagu Love, and Harry Watson 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 we have only previously auctioned one example of this half-sheet, and that was 9 years ago. That example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster was separating on both foldlines and had surface paper loss and some tiny creases and scuffs on both folds. It had a 5" vertical tear near the right end of the horizontal fold, but solely in the background area. It had a 1" tear in the right of the bottom border and some pinholes and smudges around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was mounted onto a linen backing with no restoration, and it is "lifting" from the linen at the left end of the horizontal fold. If I owned this great poster, I would surely have it taken off the linen and paperbacked, and after pretty slight restoration, the poster will look fantastic. Learn More about condition grades 
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