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Auction History Result Lot #: 1002 MAMMY linenbacked insert movie poster '30 great blackface Jolson image!  Date Sold 12/21/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Warner Bros Movie Posters at Auction  Only $15.99The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. However, you can buy the auction catalog it appears in using the "Order" button above. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36") (Learn More) Mammy, the 1930 Michael Curtiz romantic love triangle murder musical comedy melodrama ("Story and Songs by Irving Berlin"; about a blackface singer in a vaudeville show who is in love with a girl who is more interested in someone else, and the singer ends up framed for the murder of that guy, and he escapes, and has many adventures while trying to prove his innocence) starring Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Louise Dresser (in the title role as Mammy), Lowell Sherman, Noah Beery Sr., Hobart Bosworth, Tully Marshall, and Mitchell Lewis. Note that after "The Jazz Singer", Al Jolson made "The Singing Fool" and "Say It With Songs", which were both pretty simple movies, trading on the popularity of "The Jazz Singer". For this, his fourth movie, Warner Bros. went all out and hired Irving Berlin to write the songs, and assigned their ace director Michael Curtiz to the movie, and unlike the earlier three, it has a clear plot that is unrelated to the many songs (although the songs are placed where they serve as commentary on the movie's plot). The movie was filmed with two 2-strip (red and green) Technicolor sequences, and for many years, those were thought to be lost, but they were discovered mostly intact and what was found was restored and the movie has been shown almost completely as it was in 1930. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. This poster was linenbacked, and it had defects which were repaired during the linenbacking process (which we describe below, as well as the quality of the restoration, if I thought there was something about the restoration worth commenting on!). You should also look at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). the poster had many light water stains throughout, in some places leaving tiny dot stains, and in other places leaving uneven coloration to the paper; there were tears, creases, and some areas of surface paper loss around the edges of the poster. The poster was linenbacked many years ago, and the person who did so did restoration in a "minimalist" style, meaning that they solely touched up the water staining in the solid colored areas, but left all the borders and white background areas pretty much as they were. I would think most collectors would be completely happy to display this wonderful poster exactly as it is, as its defects are not distracting, and merely show that the poster is actually nearly 75 years-old! But if one wanted to, one could have further restoration performed to the poster (with or without re-backing the poster) and afterwards, the poster would look even better! Learn More about condition grades 
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