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SIGN OF THE CROSS ('32) SIGN OF THE CROSS ('32) Aust daybill OR search current auctions Auction History Result 7e079 SIGN OF THE CROSS linen Aust daybill R44 Cecil B. DeMille, Richardson Studio stone litho! Date Sold 3/5/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1944 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Australian Daybill Movie Poster (db; measures 14" x 37 1/2" [36 x 95 cm]) (Learn More) Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross, the classic 1932 Cecil B. DeMille early Christians-vs-Romans religious romantic love triangle action adventure epic ("A picture which will proudly lead all the entertainments the world has ever seen"; "Superb road-show dramatic spectacle"; "The First Big Spectacle of Talking Pictures"; "From the play by Wilson Barrett") starring Fredric March (as Marcus Superbus), Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert (as Empress Poppaea), Charles Laughton (as Emperor Nero), Ian Keith, Tommy Conlon, Vivian Tobin, and a "Cast of Thousands" NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Richardson Studio Important Added Info: Note that Paramount re-released this movie in 1944. In order to make it more relevant to World War II (WWII) audiences, DeMille shot a new "prologue" that took place aboard a fighter plane, where the men on board get into a conversation about religious tolerance, and then one launches into a story of the early Christians and their persecution, and then the 1932 movie is shown, as if in a flashback! Curiously, the movie ends without an epilogue, and the entire "prologue" feels very pasted on and superfluous. The advertising for the 1944 version looks very similar to that of the 1932 version, but the words "Modernized Production" are added. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had separation, scuffs, and some tiny tears on parts of the foldlines and some pinholes and tears around the edges. The back of the poster was used to advertise another movie and words were painted on the back of the top, middle, and bottom of the poster, and it bled through to the front, affecting the top one-third of the poster, much of the bottom one-third, and an area above the bottom foldline. A talented restorer backed the poster and then performed paint restoration over the bleed-through areas, and they did a pretty nice job, but you can see signs of the restoration that they did, especially in the white letters of the title and in part of the purple skirt that Colbert is wearing. The poster displays pretty well, but please do not bid on it unless you have looked at our super-sized image and read the above carefully and can accept the restoration it has had. Learn More about condition grades
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