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Auction History Result 2h089 DEVIL'S HOLIDAY linen B 1sh 1930 golddigger Nancy Carroll seduces farmers for money, very rare Date Sold 12/9/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 26 1/4" x 39 3/4" [67 x 101 cm]) (Learn More) The Devil's Holiday, the 1930 Edmund Goulding family relationship gold digger romantic melodrama ("Suckers - sinners - saints!"; "She toyed with them - scoffed at them - laughed at them - until she was caught in the toils of her own net!"; "Story and screen play by Edmund Goulding"; about a man-hating manicurist in a small western city who romances farmers and takes them for their money; she meets the son of a wealthy farmer and starts to do the same thing to him, but his brother and father try to stop her; the father offers her money to leave his son alone, and she takes it, but later, she regrets it, and she returns the money and finds true love with the son) starring Nancy Carroll (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film "In a New Kind Of Picture"), Phillips Holmes, James Kirkwood, Zasu Pitts, and Ned Sparks. Note that Phillips Holmes had made an impression in some movies in the late 1920s. In 1931, he would get the lead in the first version of "An American Tragedy", which made it seem like he would become a major star, but that didn't materialize. He had a major affair with Libby Holman, but that was certainly complicated, and when they broke up, she immediately married his brother! Oddly, years later, Holman would have another very complicated affair with Montgomery Clift, who played the same part in the remake of "An American Tragedy", retitled "A Place in the Sun". Sadly, Holmes died in a plane crash in 1942. I am very surprised no one has made a movie about his life, or a joint movie about him and Libby Holman! 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 1930 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned an insert, two jumbo lobby cards, and a few 8x10 stills from this movie until we received this one-sheet! Also note that this poster has no blank borders, but it has NOT been trimmed. This is something Paramount did from part of 1928 through part of 1931, printing some of their posters (perhaps just style B one-sheets) with a "full bleed", meaning the solid borders ran all the way to the edge of the poster, and the small writing at the bottom is within the color area, because there is no white area beneath it. This printing method was abandoned after a short time (probably because printers at the time had difficulty printing with a full bleed). It would not be until around 1990 that printers would again print movie posters with a full bleed! This particular poster measures 26 1/4" x 39 3/4" (but as I said above, it was not originally printed larger than that or with blank borders). We have seen other examples of this poster identified as measuring 27" x 41", but that is absolutely incorrect. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had tiny bits of paper loss in the right half of the top two horizontal folds, with a lesser amount of wear on the other folds. It had minor border wear and a pinhole in the background below the "N" of "SAINTS" at top right. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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