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Auction History Result w521 PHILADELPHIA STORY movie lobby card '40 Hepburn & Stewart c/u! Date Sold 5/15/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Philadelphia Story, the classic 1940 George Cukor (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Pennsylvania romantic love triangle wedding comedy ("Howl with your happiest Hollywood stars!"; "Broadway's howling year-run comedy hit of the snooty society beauty who slipped and fell - in love!"; "Based on the play by Philip Barry"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a divorced socialite who is planning to remarry and have no press coverage, but her ex-husband is jealous, and he arranges through blackmail to have a reporter and a photographer attend, and many complications ensue) starring Cary Grant ("...he's a smoothie!"), Katharine Hepburn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "...she's a wild red-head!"), James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart; winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "...he's a devil in the moonlight!"), Ruth Hussey (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), John Howard, Roland Young, John Halliday, Mary Nash, and Virginia Weidler. Note that James Stewart won the Best Actor Academy Award for this film and many feel it was to repay him for not winning the year before for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but that is especially ironic, because he was given the Oscar over Henry Fonda in The Grapes of Wrath, who surely deserved it! Also note that this movie was remade in 1955 as the musical High Society, with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra in the lead roles. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good to fine. The card has pinholes and smudges in the borders and a tiny tear near the middle of the right blank border. The card was used in Australia, and "SUITABLE FOR ADULTS ONLY" was stenciled in the left of the bottom blank border. There really are next-to-no defects at all within the image area! At one time, the card was attached to a backing board with two pieces of paper tape on the back of the left and right of the top and bottom borders, but the card was neatly removed from the backing board and now there is half of each piece of tape on the back of the card, but it does not affect the front. If I owned this great card, I would either just frame it as is (since the border defects would not show), or I would have a talented restorer solely touch up the borders. I would think just about every collector would be quite happy to display this great scene from this classic movie on their wall! Note that, other than the tape described above, the card is unrestored, with no other tape anywhere on the front or back of the card. Learn More about condition grades 
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