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Auction History Result 8a037 CASABLANCA LC '42 Humphrey Bogart, Bergman, Rains & Henreid in letters of transit scene, rare! Date Sold 6/14/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card is from the most famous scene in the film at the climax, where the four main characters are gathered at Rick's cafe, and Bogart double-crosses Claude Rains on the names to be entered on the "letters of transit". It is referred to in the hobby as the "letters of transit" scene, and it is the most desired Casablanca lobby card! We have only auctioned this card twice in the past 25 years, and the last time was 13 years ago (and there is no telling how many more years it will be before we auction it again)!
UPDATED 06/10/2015: Note that there was a section about the desirability and rarity of this lobby card that was accidentally deleted from the auction. It has now been re-added (see above). Condition: very good. The card has pinholes in the corners and a few faint water stains and smudges around the edges. It has some tiny water stains scattered in the "ASAB" of the title. It has a few faint scuffs in the image. Someone performed the slightest of amateur restoration to the pinholes in the corners, but otherwise did nothing to the card. It will display fantastically exactly as it is, and certainly, someone could choose to have restoration performed to the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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