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Auction History Result 4f0753 OKLAHOMA KID insert 1939 full-length art of cowboy James Cagney holding two guns, ultra-rare! Date Sold 5/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) The Oklahoma Kid, the 1939 Lloyd Bacon cowboy western ("From an original story by Edward E. Paramore & Wally Klein"; about two Oklahoma families, one of whom wants to bring law and order to the territory, and the other who is an outlaw gang and wants to keep law and order far away) starring James Cagney (in the title role as Jim Kincaid), Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Donald Crisp, Harvey Stephens, Al J. Jennings, and Ward Bond. Note that James Cagney was a major Warner Bros. star at this time, but Bogart was not considered to be, in spite of his success in "The Petrified Forest" two years earlier. So Cagney got to play the "good guy", and Bogart played the "bad guy" (dressed all in black!), and Bogart was not pictured on the original release posters. When the movie was re-released in 1943 (this date is confirmed by the IMDb and handwriting that we saw on the back of a re-release poster), Bogart WAS pictured on the advertising, because he too was now a big star! 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 Warner Bros. did something VERY unusual with this poster. They had the left of the blue box extend all the way to the edge of the left border, and also the bottom left and right of the image extends very close to the edge, covering almost all of the blank border. There is also a tiny bit of the first "O" and last "A" of "OKLAHOMA". Not only Warner Bros, but almost no studios in the 1930s and 1940s ever had images or title that extended into the blank borders! It is quite striking, but someone who did not know it , might suspect the poster is trimmed, but it is not (it measures the full 14" x 36"). Also note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have only auctioned one in all our years of auctioning and that was in 2011! Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: fair to good. The poster has darkened somewhat (typical of Warner Brothers posters printed on a "linen" paper during this time period.) However, in addition to that, the poster was displayed in a frame with a matte that covered 1/2" of the left and right of the poster, and the entire poster darkened further from that exposure when it was framed, and it includes the top and bottom blank borders (see our image). However, the poster is not really fragile, which is unusual for darkened linen-finish posters. In addition, there are water stains in the bottom 1/2" to 2 1/2" of the poster. The poster was folded across the middle only, and it had almost completely separated on that fold, and someone put conservation tape on the back of that area and also on the back of a 3" tear in the center of the top border plus some smaller tears in the top of the poster and one in the lower right border. That same person did some touch up to the front of the poster, mostly the areas that were taped. In spite of the above defects, this rare poster can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or one might choose to have an expert restorer completely re-restore the poster. Either way, the new owner will have a really striking poster to display on their wall. Learn More about condition grades 
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