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Auction History Result #2346 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE linen 1sh '38 comic Date Sold 8/19/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked "Other Company" One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Little Orphan Annie, the 1938, Ben Holmes cute-girl-helps-boxer-with-his-boxing-career juvenile adventure melodrama ("Based on the Comic Strip Character by Harold Gray") starring Ann Gillis (in the title role as Little Orphan Annie), Robert Kent, June Travis, J. Farrell MacDonald, J. M. Kerrigan, and Ian Maclaren. Interestingly, there is no "Daddy Warbucks" character, and the movie does not seem to follow the comic strip very much except in that Annie is an orphan and has a cute dog; the movie concerns Annie gathering together a bunch of poor neighbors to put up the money for a boxer's career with the hope that he will become a champion and they will all hit it rich, but some local gangsters don't like that idea; there was an earlier "Little Orphan Annie" movie in 1932 with Mitzi Green, which was more faithful to the comic strip. 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 was printed by the "other company". This was a company in the Midwest that in the late 1930s and early 1940s printed its own one-sheets and lobby card sets for major studio movies (mostly Warner Brothers and MGM, but also some other studios). The posters and lobby cards are from the original release of the movie, and almost always have completely different artwork from the regular studio release. They never have the name of the releasing studio on the poster or any of the lobby cards. Sometimes, "other company" posters or lobby cards have sold for more than the regular studio release posters or lobby cards! Condition: good to very good. Prior to linenbacking, the poster was in good condition. The poster had many tears and small areas of paper loss down the vertical foldline. There were two tears with paper loss in the black background between the words "LITTLE" and "ORPHAN" (extending into the "H" of "ORPHAN"). There were a lesser number of tears, creases, and smudges around the edges of the poster and along the other foldlines. There were pinholes, tears, and creases in the borders. Restoration has lessened the poster's defects, but they are still noticeable, although I do not think they are all that distracting. Learn More about condition grades 
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