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Auction History Result

7b0862 DESIRE LC 1936 best portrait of jewel thief Marlene Dietrich holding pearl necklace, rare!

Date Sold 8/27/2024
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More)

Desire, the 1936 Frank Borzage romantic jewel thief smuggling melodrama ("Together again for the first time since 'Morocco'"; "From a comedy by Hans Szekely and R.A. Stemmle"; about a beautiful jewel thief in Paris who steals a pearl necklace, and who hides them in the luggage of an American engineer going to Spain, and then she must retrieve them from him, and in doing so, she falls in love with him) starring Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Ernest Cossart, Akim Tamiroff, Alan Mowbray, and Zeffie Tilbury (who had the part of her life at the end of her career, as Grandma in "The Grapes of Wrath")
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Important Added Info: Note that when one of the first movie poster books reproducing classic lobby cards was published in 1982, called "Foyer Pleasure", the publisher wanted a REALLY striking lobby card to put on the cover, and they chose this exact card! Since this book was many collectors' first introduction to the world of collectible lobby cards, a huge number of collectors have always dreamed about owning this wonderful card, and after this auction ends, someone WILL own it! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

Condition: good to very good. The card must have had some light dirt or light staining, and some talented professional gave it a light bleaching. This surely brightened the card, but they did not do it so heavily that it removed every stain, and they did not do other restoration. There is a faint smudge in the fur to the right of Dietrich's head and a stain near the center of the right blank border. There is a pinhole in each corner, with a few creases around the edges and light rippling in the upper right of the card (but it is more "felt" than seen).
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