eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7y285 LETTER linen long Aust daybill '29 Richardson Studio stone litho of Jeanne Eagels & Marshall! Date Sold 6/9/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 14 1/2" x 40 1/4" [37 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Letter, the 1929 Jean de Limur East Indies romantic love triangle murder blackmail crime melodrama ("Blinded by the fury of passion - by the despair of a lost love she had not reckoned with 'The Letter'"; "Stage Play by W. Somerset Maugham"; a steamy tale set on a rubber plantation where the wife of the owner has an affair with a man who spurns her for a local native woman, and she shoots her lover dead, and then pleads self defense, saying she was defending her honor, but the native woman surfaces with a letter that proves the truth, and her husband goes deep in debt to buy the letter back!) starring Jeanne Eagels (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; she died shortly after the release of this movie from a drug overdose), O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall (in his second movie role!; he also played a different role in the 1940 version of this film starring Bette Davis), Irene Browne, and Lady Tsen Mei NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richardson Studo Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had two slightly diagonal horizontal folds at the top of the image, one was only a partial fold and went halfway through Eagels' hair, and the other ran 1" below that, going through her hair and forehead. The poster had a 2" vertical tear in the center of the fold that went through the word "JEANNE" and some minor wear on the other folds. There was a 1 1/2" tear in the right border. 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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