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Auction History Result 1g198 MAMMY linen long Aust daybill '30 different art of Al Jolson in blackface by Wynne W. Davies! Date Sold 4/5/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 15" x 39 3/4" [38 x 101 cm]) (Learn More) Mammy, the 1930 Michael Curtiz romantic love triangle murder musical comedy melodrama ("Story and Songs by Irving Berlin"; about a blackface singer in a vaudeville show who is in love with a girl who is more interested in someone else, and the singer ends up framed for the murder of that guy, and he escapes, and has many adventures while trying to prove his innocence) starring Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Louise Dresser (in the title role as Mammy), Lowell Sherman, Noah Beery Sr., Hobart Bosworth, Tully Marshall, and Mitchell Lewis. Note that after "The Jazz Singer", Al Jolson made "The Singing Fool" and "Say It With Songs", which were both pretty simple movies, trading on the popularity of "The Jazz Singer". For this, his fourth movie, Warner Bros. went all out and hired Irving Berlin to write the songs, and assigned their ace director Michael Curtiz to the movie, and unlike the earlier three, it has a clear plot that is unrelated to the many songs (although the songs are placed where they serve as commentary on the movie's plot). The movie was filmed with two 2-strip (red and green) Technicolor sequences, and for many years, those were thought to be lost, but they were discovered mostly intact and what was found was restored and the movie has been shown almost completely as it was in 1930. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Wynne W. Davies Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was missing either most or all of its blank borders and had creases and scuffs along the foldlines and a few scattered in the image. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The person who did the restoration put new blank white paper over all the borders to even out the appearance. This is a common technique used by several top restorers. It is done so well that the majority of collectors are not even aware it has been done, and many do not feel it to be a significant detraction (since it was just the borders that were affected). Learn More about condition grades 
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