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Auction History Result 1h1449 YANKEE DON linen 1sh 1931 great art of Richard Talmadge & Lupita Tovar in Mexico, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Yankee Don, the 1931 Noel M. Smith Mexico crime romantic melodrama (about a New York criminal who hides out in Mexico, and his better side comes out when he meets a Mexican girl whose family is being hurt by crooks, and he helps them and wins the girl) starring Richard Talmadge, Lupita Tovar, Julian Rivero, Sam Appel, and Gayne Whitman. Note that Richard Talmadge was born "Sylvester Alphonse Metz", and he was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He got a job in Hollywood as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and then graduated to starring in movies, always performing lots of stunts. He had two acrobat brothers, Otto Metzetti and Victor Metz, who appeared with him in some of his movies. 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 ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single movie paper item from this movie until we received this one-sheet! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at the bottom crossfold and some creases, small tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds, with paper loss in the right 1" of the middle fold. It had some pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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