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Auction History Result 5a1099 WUTHERING HEIGHTS linen 1/2sh R1955 different art of Laurence Olivier & Merle Oberon! Date Sold 9/3/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1955 Re-Release Theatrical Linenbacked Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Wuthering Heights, the classic 1939 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic unrequited love melodrama ("I am torn with Desire -- Tortured by hate!"; "....The strangest love story ever told... burning emotional fury!"; "I am Heathcliff I love a woman who belongs to another man by law... My love was fierce... My hate is burning... I Will Have My Vengeance!"; "I am Heathcliff... I married a woman I loathe... to spite the one woman I love!"; "A Story of Vengeful Thwarted Love"; "Adapted by Ben Hecht and Charles Mac-Arthur from the powerful novel by Emily Bronte [actually, they only adapted the first 22 chapters!]"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a poor beggar who is 'adopted' by a kindly rich man and when he grows up, he falls in love with the man's daughter, but is hated by the rich man's son who has inherited his father's wealth, and he runs away to become rich so that she will feel free to love him, but when he returns rich, he discovers she has married someone else!) starring Merle Oberon (as Cathy), Laurence Olivier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Heathcliff), David Niven (as Edgar), Flora Robson (as Ellen Dean), Donald Crisp (as Dr. Kenneth), Hugh Williams (as Hindley), Geraldine Fitzgerald (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Isabella), Leo G. Carroll (as Joseph), Cecil Humphreys (as Judge Linton), and Miles Mander (as Lockwood) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was never folded. It had some scuffs in the middle left yellow background area and a few small tears and slight darkening in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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