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Auction History Result 7y048 GAY DIPLOMAT linen 3sh '31 stone litho of Ivan Lebedeff playing chess with sexy figurines! Date Sold 6/9/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Gay Diplomat, the 1931 Richard Boleslawski (billed as "Richard Boleslavsky") World War I (WWI) Russia/Hungary romantic spy espionage melodrama (set during World War I, about a Russian war hero who is known as a playboy, who is sent to Hungary to try to find an enemy spy that they have no picture of; all he knows is that she is a beautiful woman, and where he goes in Bucharest, there are tons of beautiful women, and he has trouble figuring out which one is actually the spy!) starring Ivan Lebedeff ("Sensational new screen personality"), Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson, Ilka Chase, and Purnell Pratt. Note that star Ivan Lebedeff was a real life World War I Russian war hero, who went to the U.S. in 1925 and met D.W. Griffith, who was taken by him, and starred him in The Sorrows of Satan in 1926. The following year, he starred opposite Gloria Swanson in The Love of Sunya. In 1931, RKO tried to recharge his career with a starring role in this movie (where he was playing a fictionalized version of himself, and he was even named Ivan in the movie!). But the movie did not make him a big star, and after this movie, his luck in movies ran out, and he played increasingly smaller roles in movies in the 1930s. He passed away in 1953 at the age of 58. 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 poster (like many great RKO posters of the early 1930s) not only has a great artwork image, but it perfectly captures the plot of the movie, where Lebedeff, the suave war hero in a tuxedo, is looking at female figures on a chessboard, trying to decide which one is the notorious spy! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had darkened in the borders. It had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Note that the restorer who mounted the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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