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Auction History Result s012 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT title movie lobby card '40 Hitchcock, McCrea, Day Date Sold 1/30/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Foreign Correspondent, the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock ("Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, the man who gave you 'Rebecca'") World War II (WWII) spy espionage newspaper journalism romantic suspense thriller ("The thrill spectacle of the year!"; "The dramatic conflicts... of today's boldest adventurers!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about an American newspaper reporter stationed in London on the eve of World War II, and he tries to expose Nazi spies) starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; billed as "Albert Basserman"), Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Charles Wagenheim, and Eduardo Ciannelli. Note that this movie dealt with World War II and spies, and it was a clear statement from director Hitchcock that the war would soon involve every country, especially the United States, because there was no way to remain "neutral" when all those around you are at war. Finally, note that the movie credits the screenwriting to Charles Bennett and Joan Harrison, and notes that additional dialog was written by Robert Benchley and James Hilton (celebrated author of Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips), and Ben Hecht and Richard Maibaum apparently also contributed dialog, although they were uncredited! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that lobby cards from this Alfred Hitchcock movie have always been extremely scarce! It may have had something to do with the outbreak of World War II. In the seventeen years I have sold movie posters full time, I have never before sold even ONE original lobby card from this movie! Also note that, other than the tape described below, this card is completely unrestored and has never had any restoration of any kind, nor has there been any tape on the front or back of the card. The back of the card is completely blank, except for some writing in black grease pencil, which has no effect on the front of the card. Condition: good to very good. There were some small tears in the left and right borders. There was a tear in the lower middle of the right border that had small paper loss at the end of it, and someone put a piece of clear tape on the back of that tear. There are many minor creases and some smudges scattered through the card. There are pinholes in the corners. This card does have clear condition defects, but I would say that a talented restorer could give this card a cleaning, and after repairing the border defects, the card would look quite nice, and there would likely not be a lot of paint restoration anywhere in the image. IN THIS SPECIAL ALFRED HITCHCOCK LOBBY CARD AUCTION, we have given a more detailed overall condition grade along with more details about the condition described in words. Of course, we could not describe every single defect, plus there are some defects (like tape on the back, extremely tiny pinholes, etc) which can be VERY difficult to see, even in our largest "super-sized" image. Therefore we strongly recommend that you BOTH read our written description of the item, AND ALSO look at our super-sized image to see the extent of the defects that we describe and to examine the poster for minor defects that we did NOT describe. We have also noted what, if anything, is on the back the lobby card, and whether it has ANY restoration of any kind, including amateur tape restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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