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Auction History Result 9y116 KIDDIE KURE linen 1sh '40 art of Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa & Our Gang kids playing baseball! Date Sold 9/1/2015 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) Kiddie Kure, the 1940 Edward Cahn Our Gang sports baseball juvenile comedy short (about a rich man who is a hypochondriac and he takes sugar pills prescribed by his doctor, and he thinks he is an invalid; the doctor tells the rich man's wife that they should adopt a child, because that might cure him of his delusion that he is an invalid, and the Our Gang kids, who just broke one of his windows playing baseball, show up at his house, and the rich man and his wife have them in, but the youngest kids, Alfalfa's baby twin brothers, eat all the rich man's pills, and he is scared they will die, so he calls his doctor, who explains that they were just sugar pills, and the rich man realizes he was never sick at all) starring Robert Blake, Darla Hood, Billy 'Froggy' Laughlin, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, and Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas 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 has a great stone litho showing Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa and other Our Gang members playing baseball. Also note that almost all Our Gang first release one-sheets are extremely rare. But the ones from the sound movies of the 1930s are far more rare than those from the silent movies of the 1920s (although the silent ones are themselves quite rare!). The likely reason for this is that in the 1920s, many movies were short subjects (only one or two reels), so most theaters probably exhibited posters from several of the ones they were showing, including probably the Our Gangs, which were quite popular. But in the middle 1930s, just about all movies were feature length, and movies showed either one or two features, and they likely didn't display posters for the shorts they were showing, which would likely explain the unbelievable rarity of 1930s Our Gang one-sheets! The Our Gang one-sheets from the 1940s are not as scarce as those from the 1930s, likely because those may have been found in poster exchanges, which began in 1940, but they are still rare! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good to fine. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds and just a few tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds, with pinholes in the corners. Overall, the poster was in very good to fine condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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