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Auction History Result 1b839 ROMANCE & RICHES 3sh '37 different art of Cary Grant & pretty secretary Mary Brian, rare! Date Sold 9/20/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1937 Vintage Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (released in the U.S. in 1937 as "Romance and Riches"), the 1936 Alfred Zeisler English riches-to-rags-to-more-riches romantic melodrama ("E. Phillips Oppenheim's Novel"; "Based on 'The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss'"; a clever story about a millionaire English playboy who goes to his doctor because, in spite of his riches, he is bored, and the doctor "prescribes" him to work at a regular job without any of his own money to help him, and then the doctor bets him 50,000 pounds that he can't stick with it for a year; a similar plot would be used five years later in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels", and Grant reused this concept in his "An Affair to Remember" in 1957) starring Cary Grant (in the title role as Ernest Bliss), Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall, and Leon M. Lion. Note that Cary Grant's star in Hollywood had been rising steadily in the years before this movie, but he still was primarily cast as the love interest of a bigger female star. Perhaps that is why he went to England to make this movie where he was clearly the central character, and if it was intended that this would make the studios take him more seriously, it worked, because soon after this movie, he made some of his best films in the late 1930s and early 1940s! Also note that Grant was English, as was the entire cast, with the exception of Mary Brian, who was American, and had been a star in silent pictures. She was 30 years old when this movie was made, just two years younger than Grant (and at one point they were engaged). Brian was at the tail end of her career, and if this movie was hoped to revive it, it didn't really work, because she returned to America and appeared in movies for lesser studios. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that Cary Grant made this one movie in England in 1936. It was released in the U.S. through Grand National, and first release U.S. posters from it are quite rare (perhaps it did not get much of a release). We have never before auctioned any poster larger than an insert, and now we have been consigned this wonderful three-sheet, with great art! Also note that this three-sheet was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: very good. The poster had many small tears and some separation on parts of the folds (more so on the parts of the folds that were on the outside when it was fully folded). Someone put some conservation tape on the back of some of those areas. After a relatively simple linenbacking, the poster will look fantastic, and likely require very little paint restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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