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PHILADELPHIA STORY ('40) PHILADELPHIA STORY ('40) banner, silk OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2a0541 PHILADELPHIA STORY silk banner 1940 Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Silk Banner Movie Poster (measures 38" x 51" [97 x 130 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 in the 1930s and 1940s, movie studios made silk burgees (also called silk banners) for most major releases. These were printed on a silk (or silk-like) material, sometimes with a gold fringe at the bottom, and usually with an opening at the top through which a wooden pole could be inserted, usually with a rope attached to both ends of the pole, so that the burgee could be hung from a nail at the theater. Few silk burgees are known to survive (we have only auctioned a few dozen of them in our many years of auctioning, and most of those came from a single great find), and many collectors are not even aware of their existence! What is best of all about THIS silk banner is that it is from a really major movie. A lot of the few surviving silk banners have been from somewhat lesser movies. Condition: very good to fine. Unlike many surviving silk banners, this one is not tattered or stained, which is very unusual. It does have many creases down the left and right and some scattered throughout the banner but this is not at all unusual with silk banners (and perhaps it can be "pressed" in some way, or perhaps simply hanging it would cause the creases to become less noticeable). Something really nice about this banner is that it's gold fringe at the bottom is entirely intact and both the wooden stick and the cord intended for it to hang from are all completely intact, which is also unusual. Learn More about condition grades 
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