eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8p411 HELL'S ANGELS 1sh R47 Howard Hughes WWI classic, sexy Jean Harlow! Date Sold 7/7/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1947 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Hell's Angels, the classic 1930 Howard Hughes World War I (WWI) England Royal Flying Corps military airplane aviation pilot romantic love triangle melodrama (produced by Howard Hughes; "Howard Hughes' Thrilling Air Spectacle"; "Howard Hughes' Amazing Air Spectacle"; "The First Multi-Million Dollar Talking Picture"; "Howard Hughes' thrilling multi-million dollar - air spectacle"; about two brothers at Oxford who join the RAF when World War I starts, and they both fall for the same beautiful girl, but when they go off on a bombing mission, they return to find her with yet a third man) starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, James Hall, John Darrow, Lucien Prival, and Douglas Gilmore. Note that filming on this movie originally started in 1927, and it was being filmed as a silent, and Greta Nissen had the lead female role. But the movie took a very long time to make, and by that point, sound had taken over Hollywood, and producer/director Howard Hughes made the unusual decision to entirely re-shoot the movie with sound. And since Greta Nissen had a strong Norwegian accent (which made no difference in silent movies, but obviously was terrible for sound), and since Jean Harlow had come along, Hughes replaced Nissen with Harlow, which was the greatest break of Harlow's career, but heartbreaking for Nissen, who continued in movies without a big break until 1937, when she retired! 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 is a very curious poster. We have previously auctioned an Astor re-release three-sheet that says "New Streamlined Version", and Lyon, Hall, and Harlow are all prominently billed. That re-release is from either 1939 or 1940, but much more likely 1939, and that it carried over into 1940 in theaters. This is a 1947 re-release, and it is again by Astor, but by this point, Jean Harlow's star had faded so much, that they didn't even bother to bill her or picture her on the one-sheet! Condition: fair. The poster had many tears and tiny areas of paper loss down the center and on parts of the horizontal folds. Someone made the problem worse by putting thick tape on the back of those areas, and some of it bled through to the front. There are also tears, paper loss, and tape stains in the top and bottom borders. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Learn More about condition grades
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