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Auction History Result 4x157 CASABLANCA English FOH LC '42 classic close up of Humphrey Bogart staring at Ingrid Bergman! Date Sold 2/14/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical English Front of House Movie Lobby Card (FOH LC; 8x10; measures 8" x 10" [20 x 25 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 there were paper shortages in England during and after World War II, and paper was strictly rationed. This film premiered in London in 1942 (Charles De Gaulle requested a special showing in December but we do not know if that was also the premiere), and this front of house lobby card has "Not Printed on Sensitized Paper" printed in the upper left of the card, and you can tell that the paper is different from what most front of house lobby cards were printed on from both before and after the war. Condition: good to very good. The card has darkened somewhat (perhaps because it was printed on special paper; see above). There are faint creases and scuffs scattered through the card, but not so much in the stars' faces and they are not that distracting. There are staple holes and tiny paper loss in the top left corner and someone repaired them from the back (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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