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Auction History Result 3f125 ANYTHING GOES linen Leader Press 1sh '36 great different artwork of smiling Bing Crosby! Date Sold 12/8/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Leader Press One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 40 3/4" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Anything Goes, the 1936 Lewis Milestone romantic musical comedy ("Music by Cole Porter"; "Based upon the musical play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse") starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Keye Luke, Charles Ruggles (billed as "Charlie Ruggles"), Jane Wyman, Ida Lupino, and Grace Bradley 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 was printed by "Leader Press". In the 1930s, a constant headache for theaters was being sure of having movie posters for their current releases. Often, the posters would travel with the actual film prints, and sometimes the theater before them might have forgotten to include the poster, it might have been defaced or torn, etc. If a theater didn't have posters, it was very frustrating! Several companies began in the 1930s (Leader Press, the "other company", Woolever Press, etc) that made posters of their own for new releases, and they would provide a back up for theaters in case they didn't get a studio issued poster. Often the posters from these companies (with the exception of the "other company") were silk-screen posters, but they were often quite attractive, and virtually always had a completely different design from the regular studio issued poster. It is an absolute fact that posters from these companies are far more rare than the regular studio issued posters. It is also a certainty that these posters were issued when the movies were first released. In fact, they were created PRIOR to the movie's release, so that they could serve as teaser or advance posters (theaters rarely got the studio issued posters before receiving the actual movie). We have located an extremely rare original advertisement for Leader Press posters which clearly states that they were available to theaters a full two weeks prior to each movie's release. Also note that this one-sheet measures 28 1/4" x 40 3/4" [72 x 104 cm]. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had creases, tears, and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of most folds. It had a semi-circular tear to the left of the top crossfold, in Crosby's forehead. It had many pinholes and tears around the edges and some pinholes scattered in the image. 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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