Leighton and her sister are selling the poster because they believe it should be in the hands of a museum or individual who can properly care for the pop culture treasure.
Heritage Auctions estimates its value at $20,000 or more.
The movie poster will be offered as part of a posters auction in Dallas and online Nov. 29.
The 27-by-41-inch, full-color poster was obtained in 1988 by Chico resident Crowell Havens Beech.
The collector sold most of his posters in the late 1990s.
However, before he died in 2010, at age 86, he confided to a daughter that he had secretly kept the 1928 poster.
Beech had kept it hidden on a dresser top, covered with a slab of wood to keep it flat – and had topped that with a tapestry.
"I didn't even know he had it," said daughter Tracy Leighton.
When her father's health began to fail, he told her of the poster, which she termed "the crown jewel of his collection."
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