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Auction History Result 9a046 MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS style B 1/2sh 1942 Orson Welles, Norman Rockwell art of top cast, rare! Date Sold 9/15/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons, the 1942 Orson Welles historical family relationship romantic melodrama ("From the man who made 'The Best Picture of 1941'"; "'Keep away from my Mother... You're making her the Talk of the Town!'..."; "Orson Welles' Mercury Production of Booth Tarkington's Great Novel"; "The startling drama of a girl, wealthy and beautiful, who let pride break the heart of the man who adored her. A revealing challenge to every woman who thinks she can deny love!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about the haughty heir of a wealthy family, and his comeuppance he receives over the course of his life) starring Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, and Richard Bennett. Note that many film buffs consider this movie to be similar in quality to "Citizen Kane" (made by Welles just prior to this movie), with the notable exception of the ending (the studio took the movie away from Welles, and substituted a ridiculous "happy" ending in place of Welles' somber one, and that new ending was not filmed by Welles; apparently, the original ending no longer exists, and finding it would be one of the greatest possible finds of "lost" film ever!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Norman Rockwell Important Added Info: Note that RKO hired legendary illustrator Norman Rockwell to draw the art for the one-sheet for this movie, which consisted of six portraits of the lead actors' heads, arranged in a semi-circle (which is ironic, since Rockwell painted lots of wholesome American families, and the "Ambersons" were anything but, but perhaps they were intentionally trying to mislead audiences into thinking this was a far happier movie! This art was only used on the one-sheet and the style B half-sheet, but not on the other sizes of first release posters we have auctioned (it might have been on the 24-sheet!). Offered here is the very rare first release style B one-sheet, which we have only auctioned once before, 16 years ago, when it sold for $1,225! Also note that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had a 3" tear in the lower right border that went into the center of Rockwell's signature, but it only slightly affected the letters. It had a 1" tear in the right border above that and a 1" tear near the middle of the left border. It had pinholes in the corners and a 1/2" tear in the center of the top border. Someone put paper tape on the back of the tears and one corner. The poster has creases and smudges around the edges and a few scattered in the image. In spite of these defects, the poster can be displayed and enjoyed as it is, or certainly, it can be paperbacked or gelbacked, and the poster will display wonderfully and require little paint restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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