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Auction History Result 1k356 NAKED MAJA TC '59 art of sexy Ava Gardner & Tony Franciosa + nude painting of the title! Date Sold 10/6/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical International Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Naked Maja, the 1958 (released in the U.S. in 1959) Henry Koster French/Italian/U.S. romantic melodrama ("Was she duchess of a nation... Or mistress of its streets?"; "Now for all the world to behold ...The Bold ...The Beautiful ...The Breathtaking 'Naked Maja'!"; "Your eyes have never looked upon anything like the Naked Maja!"; "In all the ages-never a woman like the notorious duchess whom Goya made famous as 'The Naked Maja'!"; "Here she is in all her brazen glory... the most notorious woman of an immoral age!";"*A photographic reproduction of 'The Naked Maja' by Francisco Goya. [The Prado, Madrid]"; "Story by Oscar Saul and Talbot Jennings"; about the origin of the famous painting "The Naked Maja" by Goya) starring Ava Gardner (as Duchess of Alba, the subject of the painting), Anthony Franciosa (as Francisco Jose de Goya), Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, and Lea Padovani NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this poster includes a recreation of the famous Goya painting that the movie was named after!. Note that this title card contains nudity, so we have placed a white bar over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual card does not have those white bars! Note that this is a poster or lobby card that was printed by MGM for a European movie that they distributed in the U.S.. Somewhere in the early 1960s, MGM apparently made a huge "trade" deal with European movie distributors. From the early 1960s to the late 1960s, MGM released 100 or more non-U.S. movies in the U.S. under the MGM logo (some dating back to the 1950s), and in return, they apparently gave 100 or more MGM movies (from the 1950s and early 1960s) to those European distributors to release in Europe. All of the posters from both sets of releases have a very similar type of somewhat garish, very colorful artwork, and some have an MGM logo that is different from than on other MGM movies of the same time period, which makes it likely that those (with different logos) are from re-releases. None of these posters (except for the very first few of them) have any dates on them. Over the years, I have seen many of these posters (from both types) sold as first release, but, as stated above, some of these are mid to late 1960s re-releases, and the ones from U.S. movies are "international" posters (or lobby cards) that were used in non-U.S. countries. Condition: good. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back! Learn More about condition grades 
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