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Auction History Result d010 REBECCA linen one-sheet movie poster '40 Hitchcock, Olivier, Fontaine Date Sold 12/11/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Rebecca, the classic 1940 Alfred Hitchcock (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic love triangle melodrama ("You loved the novel, you'll love the picture."; "Between his lips and hers the shadow of this woman!"; "A lonely man, a lovely girl ...struggling against the secret of Manderley"; "The shadow of a remembered woman came between their lips... But these two had the courage to hope... And to live their love!"; "From the best-selling novel by Daphne de Maurier"; "Gloriously she loved him... though a dread suspicion gnawed at her heart! The secret of Manderley... challenging, mysterious... broods over a powerful drama of two lonely people who lived on courage and hope!"; "Produced by David O. Selznick who made 'Gone With the Wind'"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; about a young woman who marries a rich and powerful widower after a short romance, and she feels she is in constant competition with her husband's dead wife, or is she?) starring Laurence Olivier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "Hero of Wuthering Heights"), Joan Fontaine (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "in her sensational starring debut"), George Sanders, Judith Anderson (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Gladys Cooper, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, and Florence Bates 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 the commonly accepted release date for this classic Alfred Hitchcock movie is 1940, but this original one-sheet carries a 1939 copyright date. It is not uncommon for posters to be dated in the year prior, especially if they were released at the start of the year. Condition: good to very good. The poster had a second slightly diagonal vertical foldline 3/4" to the left of the regular one at the top, and narrowing to 1/4" at the bottom. There were creases and tears in the area between the two folds, with some horizontal tears, and some small areas of paper loss down the length of that area. There was a horizontal tear in the middle of Fontaine's nose, and some paper loss in her forehead just above her eyebrow. There were a few creases and tiny tears on the horizontal foldlines and some creases, tears, and small areas of paper loss around the edges of the poster. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and the person who did the restoration made a wise decision (in my opinion), to NOT make the poster look "perfect", because that would have required lots of paint down the center of the poster, and to make it truly "invisible", would have required lots of paint all over the poster. Instead, the restorer did touch up solely to the above described areas, and you can see very slight signs of restoration to those areas, but, from any normal viewing distance, it is not very noticeable or distracting at all, and the poster in no way has a "restored look". I would think most collectors would be quite happy to display this great poster on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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