eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3b1179 VOLTAIRE insert 1933 Arliss as French author, Doris Kenyon & Margaret Lindsay, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) Voltaire (also released as "The Affairs of Voltaire"), the 1933 John G. Adolfi France historical author literature biography melodrama ("The Greatest Actor of Today" [plays] "The Greatest Man of His Time"; "The affairs of history's strangest personality."; "A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture"; set in the days before the French Revolution; famous French author Voltaire has fallen out of favor with King Louis XV because he has criticized the court's excesses; a woman whose father was unfairly executed comes to him and asks him to help her regain her father's estate and restore his good name, and Voltaire writes a play that tells the story of her father in an allegory, and it is performed for the King, and it causes him to see the error of his ways, and he restores the young lady's estate!) starring George Arliss (in the title role as Voltaire), Doris Kenyon (as Madame Pompadour, the king's mistress), Margaret Lindsay, Theodore Newton, Alan Mowbray, and Reginald Owen (as Louis XV) 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 this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Condition: very good. The poster was never folded. It is not fragile, which is a big plus. It has a few small border tears and some minor creases and scuffs around the edges. Someone mended the border tears from the back. Learn More about condition grades
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