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Auction History Result 3a1199 YOU'LL FIND OUT 1sh 1940 Kay Kyser, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff & Peter Lorre, ultra-rare! Date Sold 1/26/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) You'll Find Out, the 1940 David Butler musical horror crime mystery comedy ("The Big Melody, Mirth and Mystery Show!"; "A mystery with music!") starring Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi ("The Three Horror Men"), Helen Parrish, Dennis O'Keefe, Alma Kruger, Kay Kyser, Ginny Simms (billed as "Kay Kyser's band featuring Ginny Simms"), Harry Babbitt, Ish Kabibble, Sully Mason, and "'The College of Musical Knowledge"' 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 an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! It appears to be very similar to the "rotogravure" one-sheets of the 1910s through the early 1930s, but we suspect it was something that was just done to give a sense of the movie being from an earlier period, because those posters were not made after the early 1930s (although we have seen a few other one-sheets like this from the 1940s or 1950s, which also resembled "rotogravure" one-sheets). What are "rotogravure" one-sheets? In the late 1910s through the early 1930s, MGM (and sometimes Paramount and a couple of other studios) would often make a regular one-sheet for a movie and, instead of a second style regular one-sheet, would instead make a special "rotogravure" one-sheet. Named after the rotogravure picture sections at the time popular in Sunday newspapers, these one-sheets would be printed in a single color, often sepia, but sometimes other colors, and they would usually incorporate pictorial images from the movie combined in a montage fashion. Very few rotogravure one-sheet have survived, since they were printed on the same paper stock used in newspapers of the time, and the paper is very fragile and often darkens. Condition: very good. The poster was folded in half an extra time resulting in a light vertical foldline at left and right. It has slightly unevenly darkened on back at upper left, but it is not very noticeable or distracting at all on front, and otherwise the ultra-rare poster is in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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