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Auction History Result 7w053 AMONG THE LIVING linen 1sh '41 Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey, Frances Farmer Date Sold 10/15/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Among the Living, the 1941 Stuart Heisler identical twins horror crime film noir ("What horrible fascination did this monster have for women?"; from the story by Brian Marlow & Lester Cole; a bizarre story of a pair of identical twins, and one appears to die when he is 10 years old, but actually, he has gone insane, and his father locked him away in a hidden room in their mansion, and even his twin brother doesn't know of his existence; but after the father dies, the twin brother returns to his family home and discovers his crazed evil twin, referred to as a "monster", and he tries to carry on for his father, but then his brother escapes!) starring Albert Dekker (in a dual role as twins!), Susan Hayward (in her seventh credited movie role!), Harry Carey Sr., Frances Farmer, Gordon Jones, and Jean Phillips. Note that this movie is little remembered today, and it was a lesser effort from Paramount, who was trying to capitalize on Albert Dekker's success in Dr. Cyclops the year before, and it was the inspiration for a Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episode where Bart discovers he has had an evil twin brother, Hugo! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fair. This poster has been linenbacked, but it was not very well done, likely both because the restorer did not do a good job at all, and because the years since it has been linenbacked have not been kind to the poster. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Generally, it had paper loss at the crossfolds and tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of many foldlines (someone put some tape on the back of some of the tears, which bled through to the front). There are some scuffs scattered through the poster, and some small parts of all four blank borders were neatly trimmed off. The poster was not well backed at all, because you can still see some or all of the defects generally described above (in some cases, as should be immediately evident in our image, the linenbacker did no restoration to some of the defects), and if there was restoration of the above defects, it was not done very well. Certainly, a talented restorer could perform additional restoration (either with or without re-backing the poster), but it might be fairly expensive to have this done, so bear that in mind before you place a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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