eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2s0820 PALOOKA linen 1/2sh R1941 boxing, Stuart Erwin, Jimmy Durante, sexy Lupe Velez, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1941 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Palooka (also released as "Joe Palooka" and released in Sweden as "Knockout", where "Palooka" probably was not in their vocabulary!), the 1934 Benjamin Stoloff boxing sports comedy (based on the classic comic strip 'Joe Palooka' drawn by Ham Fisher) starring Jimmy Durante (billed as "Jimmie Durante"), Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin (in the title role as Joe Palooka), Marjorie Rambeau, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle, William Cagney (older brother of James Cagney; he bore a remarkable resemblance to his famous brother, but after starring in just three movies, he mostly retired from acting and managed his brother's career), and Thelma Todd. What is REALLY cool about this movie is that United Artists hired three great cartoonists to draw special cartoon newspaper ads for this movie, and they were William Steig, Otto Soglow, and Dr. Seuss (long before his books, but he signed his work as Dr. Seuss!). 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 we have never before auctioned this 1941 re-release half-sheet (and, oddly, Jimmy Durante has not only fallen in billing from first to third in the seven years since the movie was made, but in addition, his first name is misspelled as "Jimmie"! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster had several extra vertical folds, with creases and scuffs along parts of most folds, and some fine surface paper loss. It had some creases and scuffs scattered in the rest of the image, with stains and tears around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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