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Auction History Result 4b0075 CIRCUS CLOWN linen 1sh 1934 art of Joe E. Brown w/tiger, lion, elephant, giraffe & chimp, rare! Date Sold 4/28/2020 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) The Circus Clown, the 1934 Ray Enright romantic circus screwball comedy (this is a forgotten classic!; Brown plays a famous acrobat in the circus, who has a not so talented son who wants to follow in his father's footsteps, and he tries to get a job in a circus, but the only job they will give him is cleaning up after the animals; he falls in love with a beautiful female acrobat, and he manages to get into the act, trying to impress her, with great comic results) starring Joe E. Brown (in a dual role as father and son!), Patricia Ellis, Dorothy Burgess, Don Dillaway, Gordon Westcott, and Ward Bond (in an uncredited role as a spectator!). Note that Joe E. Brown had worked as a circus acrobat before breaking into movies, and he did most of his own stunts in this movie, similar to Burt Lancaster in "Trapeze". That makes the movie much more enjoyable, rather than watching obvious stunt doubles. And Brown was great at physical comedy! Also, there is a somewhat bizarre sequence in the movie where Brown falls for a female circus performer, but it turns out it is a man in drag, which is odd foreshadowing of his role in"Some Like It Hot" 25 years later! 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 we have previously auctioned three examples of this one-sheet, and the last one was 22 years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss and small tears at the bottom crossfold, with tiny paper loss at the middle crossfold. It had partial extra horizontal folds next to the regular ones, with slight darkening on the folds and in the outer edges of the blank borders. It had pinholes in the corners and some blank paper loss in the corners, caused by rough removal of the pins. 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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