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Auction History Result 9g017 MR. & MRS. SMITH linen rotogravure 1sh '41 cool montage with Hitchcock directing Lombard! Date Sold 6/9/2013 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) Mr. And Mrs. Smith, the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock romantic marriage comedy ("It's Speedy! It's Spicy! It's the All-Time Prize Panic of the Screen!"; "A New High in Hilarity!... The daring and delightful story of a marriage run by rules, ruled by riot and almost wrecked by romance! ...Carole and Bob co-sparring in a battle to a decision that'll leave you limp with laughter!"; one of the few movies Hitchcock made that wasn't a thriller!) starring Carole Lombard (in the title role as Ann Smith), Robert Montgomery (in the title role as David Smith), Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Allan Wood, and Ralph Dunn 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 appears to be very similar to the "rotogravure" one-sheets of the 1910s through the early 1930s, but we suspect it was something that was just done to give a sense of the movie being from an earlier period, because those posters were not made after the early 1930s (although we have seen a few other one-sheets like this from the 1940s or 1950s, which also resembled "rotogravure" one-sheets). What are "rotogravure" one-sheets? In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time and it had some creases and scuffs on parts of some foldlines and some minor border wear. 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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