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Auction History Result 4h101 FOLLOW THE FLEET linen Canadian 1sh R40s Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, music by Irving Berlin! Date Sold 12/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1940s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Canadian One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 26 1/2" x 41 3/4" [67 x 106 cm]) (Learn More) Follow the Fleet, the classic 1936 Mark Sandrich military Navy sailor romantic musical ("Clear the decks for action!..."; "They're the life of the Navy... in the musical gem of the ocean!"; "Irving Berlin composed the salty songs and tantalizing tunes"; "A 21-gun salute to the mirth of a nation! ...with more new dances... more new songs... more new things to make you laugh and thrill and tingle than you've ever seen or heard before!"; "In the Super-Dreadnaught of musical shows"; "Strike up the band!... Here come the king and queen rhythm... in the super-dread-naught of musical shows!"; "Based on the play 'Shore Leave' by Hubert Osborne"; "Lyrics and music by Irving Berlin who gives you a broadside of Song Hits"; about two sailors on leave in San Francisco and they are romancing two pretty performers) starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Betty Grable, Harriet Hilliard (billed as "Harriet Nelson"), Astrid Allwyn, Lucille Ball, "and scores of glorious girls and go-get 'em gobs hitting the high spots afloat and ashore!". Note that this was one of the nine wonderful movies that Astaire and Rogers made between 1933 and 1939 (they made one final movie, "The Barkleys of Broadway", thirteen years later in 1949). 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: This poster is somewhat of a mystery! There are similar Canadian posters for other top RKO titles of the 1930s, and some people have sold them as being from the first release year of each movie (we know of one case where a Canadian poster was altered to make it look exactly like the U.S. poster, which is very sad). However, we think it is far more likely that these Canadian posters all date from the very early 1940s. Why? Because they are a different size from the first release U.S. posters and they are not of the same printing quality of the first release U.S. posters (although they are quite nice), and since I know that Canadian theaters used U.S. posters in the 1930s, I think it is extremely likely that it is NOT from the first release year. We think it is far more likely that when World War II caused the major Hollywood studios to lose distribution in Europe, and also caused them to lose most of their top stars to the war, they likely made a deal with Canadian distributors to re-release their classic movies in Canada at some point during those war years. This is further reinforced by the fact that other Canadian posters like this have surfaced over the years, and they are usually from classic RKO movies from throughout the 1930s, and they are often found together, but printed on very similar paper, making it far more likely they were printed at the same time. But we don't have any absolute evidence to prove this, but we would be VERY surprised if someone could prove that this poster was from the first release year. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had two evenly spaced vertical foldline and the normal three horizontal folds, with minor wear on the foldlines. It had a 4" tear in the top right corner in the blank paper only, and paper loss in the bottom right corner that extended into the corner of the image, affecting the last number in that area. It had some pinholes around the edges and some writing in the left of the top blank border. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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