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Auction History Result 3j0219 BROADWAY BILL linen style B 1sh 1934 Frank Capra, best art of Warner Baxter & Myrna Loy, rare! Date Sold 2/18/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style B One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Broadway Bill, the 1934 Frank Capra horse racing gambling romantic love triangle comedy melodrama ("Great Alone - Perfect Together!"; "Two Great Stars in The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'"; "The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'!"; "Based on the story by Mark Hellinger"; screen play "by Robert Riskin"; about a gambler who is married to the daughter of a millionaire, but she doesn't share his interests in gambling or horse racing, but her younger sister does, and it takes him a while to realize that he married the wrong sister!) starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, Margaret Hamilton, Clarence Muse, and Broadway Bill the horse (in the title role). Director Frank Capra remade this film in 1950 as the musical "Riding High", in which he actually used many of the same actors so he wouldn't have to re-shoot any of the big race scenes, which were reused from this film! 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 first release one-sheets from this Frank Capra comedy are extremely rare. We have only once before auctioned an example of this style B one-sheet (we auctioned it in 2014, and then it was reconsigned to us, and we auctioned it again in 2017). Now we have been auctioned this second example, which is a different one from the previous one. We have also only auctioned only two examples of the style A one-sheet, and those were 29 years ago and 12 years ago. So both one-sheets from this movie are certainly very rare posters, and most collectors prefer this style B image to that of the style A. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had separation, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss scattered down much of the vertical fold, with some tape on the back of several of those areas. It had tears and two areas of paper loss in the right 6" of the middle fold. It had pinholes and some tape stains around the edges. Overall, the poster was in 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. While the poster displays pretty well as it is, I could certainly understand one choosing to have it professionally re-backed. Either way, the new owner will have a really cool and rare poster to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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