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Auction History Result 5r0623 JIM THORPE ALL AMERICAN 1sh 1951 Burt Lancaster as greatest athlete of all time! Date Sold 12/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Laminated One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Jim Thorpe - All American (also released as "Man of Bronze"), the 1951 Michael Curtiz romantic Olympic decathlon sports track-and-field football baseball melodrama ("He wore America's heart over his!"; "Everyone's hero - and one woman's idol! - An entertainment glorious as the grand guy it glorifies!"; "Glorious as the grand guy it glorifies!"; "Jim Thorpe - Technical Advisor"; "For All America to cheer..."; "Master of them all!"; "Everyone's hero -- and one woman's idol!"; "Warner Bros. present a rousing entertainment as glorious as the grand guy it glorifies"; "His rise to fame..."; "His moment of mistake..."; "His battle back to a nation's cheers... and one cheer more!"; a fictionalized biography of Native American Jim Thorpe, the greatest athlete of all time, even though he was stripped of his Olympic medals) starring Burt Lancaster (in the title role as Jim Thorpe, the famous Olympic Decathalon sports champion who was stripped of his medals, played professional baseball AND football, and made a few movies!), Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Dick Wesson, Jack Big Head, and Eula Morgan 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 this poster has something VERY UNUSUAL about it. What is that? The person who owned it had a home movie theater, and they had a large collection of one-sheets, and they would display them when they showed the movie, and they needed a way to protect the posters while they were being handled, and keep them from being damaged while on display. He came up with a solution that we have not seen before. He had a thin sheet of laminate plastic placed over the BACK of each one-sheet, BUT NOT ON THE FRONT (as is normally done when laminating the poster). If you have ever seen "laminated" posters, they are often covered with very thick plastic material on both sides. THE LAMINATE PLASTIC USED HERE IS A THIN MATERIAL. While we have never seen this before, it actually works well! The front of the poster is no different then it was, but the plastic on the back greatly helps protect the poster from tears or other defects (this is the same principle that was used decades ago when they would kraftback posters moving from theater to theater, and as with kraftbacking, the posters with this laminate plastic on the back CAN be folded as normal, as this poster was). WE DON'T KNOW HOW EASY OR HARD IT WOULD BE TO REMOVE THE PLASTIC FROM THE BACK (although there are a few where the plastic is separating, indicating it surely CAN be done), but the buyer of this poster will have two options. They can either keep the poster exactly as is, and if they display it, no one will even know about the plastic laminate on the back, or they can have a restorer remove it. Either way, DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THAT IT HAS THIS ON THE BACK (but NOT on the front). Condition: good. The poster has laminate plastic on the back only (see above: but NOT on the front). Learn More about condition grades 
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