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Auction History Result 7r0079 WANDA British quad 1971 Barbara Loden cult classic, art by by Peter Strausfeld, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/21/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1971 (from the first release of this movie in the U.K.) Vintage Theatrical Unfolded British Quad Movie Poster (BQ; Quad Crown; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Wanda, the 1970 Barbara Loden cult classic Pennsylvania family relationship robbery crime melodrama (about a woman who lives in poor coal country in Pennsylvania, and she is very depressed and loses custody of her kids to her husband, and even more depressed she wanders in a bar that is being robbed, and she takes up with the robber, and things go downhill from there) starring Barbara Loden (in the title role as Wanda Goronski), Michael Higgins, Dorothy Shupenes, Peter Shupenes, Jerome Thier, and Marian Thier. Note that star/director Barbara Loden also wrote the movie, and that its entire crew consisted of four people! Loden was a very poor child from Depression-era Marion, North Carolina, whose beauty and brains allowed her to escape her surroundings, and she became a model, and then was "discovered" by Elia Kazan, and she acted in his movies, and became romantically involved with him. Three years after making this movie she married Kazan and retired (perhaps at his insistence). A few years later she began a film adaptation of The Awakening by Kate Chopin, but very sadly she developed cancer and the project was not finished, and she passed away in 1980 and she was just 48. In the years since her passing this movie has acquired cult status, and many feel it is a very important movie, made by a movie at a time when very few American women were making movies. Also note that this cult U.S. movie had its premiere on August 21, 1970 at the Venice Film Festival. Its success there led to it being shown at the BFI London Film Festival on November 26, 1970. That led to its first regular release in the United Kingdom starting on January 14, 1971, followed by a U.S. release starting February 28, 1971. Since we doubt any posters were printed for the two film festival showings (and if they were, that any exist), the first regular release posters are from the 1971 U.K and U.S. releases, and we date them as being from that year, and as "first release". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Peter Strausfeld Important Added Info: Note that we have only auctioned one example of this poster before and it sold for $532! It is a special British quad printed for "The Academy Cinema". This was a major English cinema that had its own posters created and printed for movies they were showing (these were made during the first English showing of those movies). Condition: good. There are MANY creases along several inches of the left and right edges of the poster (see our image) with a few tiny areas of paper loss. After proper restoration the rare poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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