eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 4d0649 LOUIS JORDAN linen 1sh 1946 playing Fuzzy Wuzzy with Broadway's brightest colored stars, rare! Date Sold 4/16/2023Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 28 1/4" x 41" [72 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Louis Jordan was an black African American musician, songwriter, and bandleader from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was known as the King of the Jukebox and was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era. Some of his works include: Caldonia, Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby, and Ration Blues, He passed away in 1975 at the age of 66. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a fascinating poster! Alfred N. Sack of Sack Amusement Enterprises was a producer of all-black films in the 1930s and 1940s. We know that Louis Jordan starred in a bunch of "soundies" (the forerunner of today's music videos, which played on video juke boxes in the 1940s), and this poster makes it likely that Sack showed some of them in theaters as shorts! Aside from this poster, we have also seen two very similar one-sheets which are identical except for different titles ("Rocco Blues" and "Hepcat Serenade" instead of "Fuzzy Wuzzy"), which tells us that this is a "stock" one-sheet that was printed for multiple shorts, with different titles for when theaters showed the different shorts. We found on the Internet that these movies were shown in 1946, and since William Forrest Crouch is credited as the director, it appears that he made these shorts with Louis Jordan in 1946 and then made the feature film "Reet, Petite and Gone" with him the following year in 1947. If anyone knows more about this (or has ever seen another poster, other than the three we describe here), 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 small paper loss at the bottom crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had a thin strip of paper loss at the right end of the bottom horizontal fold, entering the solid blue and orange areas. There was a 3" tear 2" below that area and diagonal creases at the right end of the top horizontal fold, entering the bottom of the "S" of "LOUIS". There were some tiny bits of paper loss on small parts of some folds, and some pinholes around the edges. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades
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