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Auction History Result 9y054 DANCE FOOLS DANCE linen 1sh '31 great art of Joan Crawford & Lester Vail celebrating, rare! Date Sold 9/1/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Dance Fools Dance, the 1931 Harry Beaumont New York City Wall Street Stock Market Crash newspaper journalism romantic murder crime thriller ("America's dancing daughter in her most thrilling picture!"; "Even better than 'Paid'"; "A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ALL TALKING Picture"; "Story and dialogue by Aurania Rouverol"; about the daughter of a rich Wall Street man, who dies of a heart attack after he is ruined in the Stock Market Crash in 1929, and she breaks her engagement with her rich boyfriend, because she is now broke, and she gets a job as a newspaper reporter, and her now broke brother goes to work for a bootlegger, and she is assigned a job of investigating bootlegging murders, which leads her to her brother's boss, and she infiltrates the boss' business by getting a job as a dancer in his nightclub, but when the boss invites her up to his apartment, her brother shows up and both men are killed, and she quits her job, but her old boyfriend shows up as she is leaving, and asks her to marry him, and she agrees, and a newspaper photographer is there to take their picture for the society pages) starring Joan Crawford, Lester Vail, Cliff Edwards, William Bakewell, William Holden (no, not THAT William Holden, but another actor of the same name who made 20 movies between 1920 and 1931, and he died the next year, which was 7 years before the more famous William Holden made his first movie!), Clark Gable, Natalie Moorhead, and Ann Dvorak 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 first release 1931 movie paper from this Joan Crawford movie is incredibly rare. We have never sold ANY first release U.S. poster from this movie until we received this one-sheet, and we can find no evidence of any other auctions selling any first release U.S. posters either! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had stains in the red background area below the "ORD" of "CRAWFORD" at top right, slightly affecting the bottom of the "O" and "D", and slightly affecting the bottom of the "R". It had stains in the left of the red background area, under the first "R" of "CRAWFORD" and slightly affecting the bottom of that "R". It had paper loss in the top right corner, affecting the red background. It had some pinholes and tears around the edges, with some small paper loss. It had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and some tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds. 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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