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Auction History Result 7y065 STAR OF MIDNIGHT linen 3sh '35 great full-length stone litho of William Powell & Ginger Rogers Date Sold 6/9/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Star of Midnight, the 1935 Stephen Roberts romantic lawyer legal detective crime mystery comedy ("Bright with Sparkling Romance... Loaded with Laughter.. Breathless with Thrilling Suspense"; "United For The First Time.... The glamorous, titian-haired star of 'Gay Divorcee' and 'Roberta'... And the master of a hundred screen triumphs..."; "Set you afire with romance and a-tingle with thrills.."; "The glamorous, titian-haired star of 'Gay Divorcee' and 'Roberta' joins hands with the master of all screen sleuths in a sparkling, mystery drama breathless with thrills ..."; "From the Novel by Arthur Somers Roche"; it has a lot of similarities to MGM's "The Thin Man", which also starred Powell; here he is an attorney who solves crimes, and he has a high society beautiful girlfriend who wants him to marry her) starring William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly, Gene Lockhart, Ralph Morgan, Leslie Fenton, J. Farrell MacDonald, and Vivien Oakland 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 we auctioned a different example of this poster in 1992 (23 years ago!) for $13,200! We had never seen the poster before, and of course, we have looked to find another example of it ever since, but we never did. However, now, our consignor discovered the top two-thirds of this wonderful poster. We had the finest restorer recreate the bottom one-third of the poster, matching it exactly to the high quality image of the poster we auctioned in 1992, so it has been recreated in every detail, and it was done on poster paper, so it looks authentic in every way. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair. The bottom one-third of the poster was missing. The top two-thirds had paper loss at the crossfold that fell in the left of Powell's shirt, a faint diagonal crease running through part of Rogers' face, and minor wear on the foldlines. It had some pinholes in the corners. The missing bottom third of the poster was expertly recreated (see above). It was done on a separate "one-sheet" sized paper, complete with foldlines, exactly where the folds are on the only complete example of this poster (which we auctioned). It was also placed below the top section slightly unevenly on the right border, again, to exactly match the only complete example. I think it is completely fair to say that the vast majority of collectors would never realize this bottom third was entirely recreated unless they were told it, even after looking at it close up! When the new owner of this poster displays it on their wall, there will be no one to think that it is not the complete poster, unless the owner chooses to tell them! Finally, note that the bottom left of our image had some glare on it. It is very difficult to get an image of a three-sheet without any glare in the corners if they are dark colors. This glare is SOLELY on our digital image, and not at all on the actual poster, which displays fantastically! Learn More about condition grades 
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