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Auction History Result 3a089 MOROCCO WC '30 best romantic close up art of Legionnaire Gary Cooper & sexy Marlene Dietrich! Date Sold 12/11/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22") (Learn More) Morocco, the classic 1930 Josef von Sternberg (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) military French Foreign Legion doomed romance romantic love triangle adventure melodrama (Cooper is a man who ran off to join the French Foreign Legion to escape his past, and he meets French saloon singer Marlene Dietrich, and they fall madly in love, but their romance is ill-fated) starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern, and Francis McDonald. Note that both Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were at the height of their fame when they made this movie, and they worked wonderfully together! Also note that in this movie, Dietrich is sometimes dressed in men's clothes and has a passionate kiss with another woman! 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 any original movie paper from this early classic Dietrich movie is extremely scarce, and lobby cards from the movie (especially ones with good images of Dietrich) are almost never offered for sale! Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. Condition: good. The poster was never folded. It had some creases, tears, and stains scattered throughout the image. There was a 7" jagged tear in the lower right border that extended through the middle of Dietrich's hair and through the middle of her cheek and into her upper lip. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but the restorer did not want the poster to have a "re-painted" look, so very little restoration was done in the background areas, and only a slight bit in the stars' images. If I owned this card, I would surely have a restorer perform some additional restoration to the tear in Dietrich's face and perhaps do some tiny touch up to the rest of the card. I believe that after a small amount of additional restoration (without re-backing the card), the card will display great, even though you will still be able to see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. But please do not bid on this card unless you have carefully read the above and carefully looked at our super-sized image, to see the extent of the defects and the restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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