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Auction History Result

#6058 BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY 1/2sh '44 Bari

Date Sold 9/16/2003
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Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More)

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, the 1944 Rowland V. Lee Peru Andes historical romantic melodrama ("...and they called her 'The Perichole'"; "She gloried in the hearts she broke!"; "...This woman, strange as she was beautiful - bewitching as she was bad... who rose from the dance halls to rule in the halls of the mighty. Thornton Wilder's prize-winning novel achieves new glory on the screen!"; "Every century has known one such woman... but only one... a creature of such devastating beauty that any man would trade an empire for her arms!"; "Of all men, he knew her best... loved her most!"; "He ruled the kingdom... and she ruled him!"; "She loathed her for what she was... as only a woman could!"; "From Thornton Wilder's Novel"; adapted from the novel by Thornton Wilder; the classic story of a bridge in Peru that collapses, killing five people, and then the movie tells those five people's stories in flashback, so one can decide if it was bad luck or fate that they all happened to be on that bridge) starring Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova, Louis Calhern, Blanche Yurka, Donald Woods, and Joan Lorring. Note that this is a remake of the 1929 silent movie of the same name starring Lili Damita.
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Condition: good. vertical creases throughout the poster from being flattened somewhat while rolled as well as smudges, creases, and scuffs throughout the poster (more so around the edges); 6" tear in the right edge of the poster (repaired with clear tape from the front) as well as some tattering along the left edge of the poster (repaired with tape from the back)
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