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Auction History Result 7h399 GREAT GUY Central Show 1sh '36 cool artwork portrait of James Cagney + pretty Mae Clarke! Date Sold 3/12/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded "Central Show" One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Great Guy (released in England as "Pluck of the Irish"), the 1936 John G. Blystone crime thriller ("It's tops in Cagney entertainment"; "James Cagney at his best!"; "From the Johnny Cave Stories in the Saturday Evening Post by James Edward Grant"; about the "New York Department of Weights and Measures", which was in charge of making sure the public didn't get cheated on the weight of goods; Cagney is the brash new head of it, who gets the job after the old head is hospitalized for not "playing ball"; Cagney takes on everyone: the crooks who cheat the public, and the crooked politicians who take bribes to let them do it!) starring James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy, and Henry Kolker. Of course, this movie reunited James Cagney with Mae Clarke, the actress that had hit in the face with a grapefruit in Public Enemy! Perhaps this was his way of apologizing to her, by co-starring with her! 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 been trimmed and it now measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm] (the poster measured slightly over 27" wide before the trimming). Note that this poster was printed by "Central Show". 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. Condition: good to very good. A very small amount has been trimmed from the left and right edges of the poster. There is some separation at the crossfolds (more so at the bottom crossfold) and there is a small amount of tattering along the foldlines and around the edges with some repaired with tape from the back. There are remnants of pieces of tape on the back of the poster along some of the foldlines and edges but they appear to have been placed there mostly for reinforcement purposes and were later partially removed. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and its colors are still vibrant and after removal of the tape and simple linenbacking the poster will look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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