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Auction History Result 6y001 LOST WEEKEND style A 1sh '45 many images of alcoholic Ray Milland, directed by Billy Wilder! Date Sold 9/3/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) The Lost Weekend, the classic 1945 Billy Wilder (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) family relationship romantic alcoholism alcoholic drinking melodrama ("The screen dares to open the strange and savage pages of a shocking best-seller!"; "Paramount's Sensation"; "From the Novel by Charles Jackson"; "Screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; about a man's difficult fight against alcoholism, and the movie focuses on a specific four day period in his life, where he desperately tries to remain sober with the help of his long suffering girlfriend and brother) starring Ray Milland (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling, and Frank Faylen. Note that this was one of Hollywood's first realistic looks at alcoholism that was not heavy handed and one-dimensional, and it has not really dated at all, and it remains a very powerful movie, with great writing, acting, cinematography, and direction. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fair. There is an Academy award snipe at upper right. There are areas of tattering and small paper loss along the foldlines and edges (some repaired with tape from the back that now bleeds through to the front). Learn More about condition grades 
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