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Auction History Result 2j231 I WANTED WINGS linen Mexican poster 1941 Woodburn art of bald eagle flying with planes, rare! Date Sold 12/11/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Mexican Movie Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 36 3/4" [70 x 93 cm]) (Learn More) I Wanted Wings, the 1941 Mitchell Leisen World War II (WWII) airplane aviation military thriller ("The grandest aviation picture ever to thrill the heart of America! ... All the power, the splendor of Uncle Sam's great air armada... all the courage, the daring of the men who man the air defenses of America... brought to flaming, heart-stirring wonder on the screen in the roaring drama of four 'hot pilots' and the blonde bomber who raids their hearts."; "1,000 planes... 10,000 thrills... and one terrific blonde!"; "The thrilling saga of America's flying youth!"; "Flying Fortress crashes!"; "Flying fists!"; "Daring mid-air rescue!"; "First American air-raid!"; "Based on a story by Eleanore Griffin and Frank Wead"; "From the book, 'I Wanted Wings', by Beirne Lay Jr.") starring Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy, Constance Moore, Veronica Lake ("Blonde bomber... she flew them into the ground!"; in her first real role; she had a few bit parts, and a few where she was billed under her real name of Constance Keane), and Harry Davenport NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Tom Woodburn Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Mexican poster, which has great completely different Tom Woodburn art from 1939 that completely ignores Veronica Lake, and focuses on the real plot of the movie, "Uncle Sam's great air armada", and showing an eagle in flight in formation with the planes! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some small tears, tiny paper loss, and small stains scattered down the vertical fold and in the right half of the top horizontal fold, with a lesser amount of wear on the other folds. It had some bleed-through from righting on the back of the top right corner, and creases scattered down the left and right, extending into the image in some areas. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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