SEVEN SINNERS

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement removed from Kinematograph Weekly January 9th, 1941 for the 1940 Tay Garnett Drama SEVEN SINNERS starring Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford, Anna Lee, Mischa Auer, Billy Gilbert, Oskar Homolka and Reginald Denny.

Marlene takes up a singing gig at the South Sea island cafe of the title and works her wiles on lieutenant Wayne, who’s soon ready to make an honest girl of her.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold. There are 12 staple holes along the vertical centre fold.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.
The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.