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Auction History Result 2s0965 CASABLANCA linen 1sh 1942 Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman in the best romance ever, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) 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 we have only previously auctioned three examples of this poster, and two of them were in the early 1990s! We auctioned one in 1991, one in 1994, and the third time was in 2016, when it auctioned for $26,055! Now, six years later, we have it for a fourth time, and it may be several years (at least) before we have it again! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at the middle crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other two crossfolds. It had a few tiny bits of surface paper loss and very tiny tears on parts of some folds. It had a small stain around the size of a penny in the inset image near the middle of the poster, the one with Henreid, Bergman, and Qualen, and it was in the background near the center above the lamp. The poster had a few small tears and tiny areas of paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and it was in a frame for some amount of time, and the excess linen around the edges was was attached to the mat with some kind of glue. When the mat was removed, the excess linen has slight glue residue on it. It is not at all sticky, but you can feel it slightly. It is not on the actual poster, just on the excess linen. The new owner of this poster will have something very eye catching on their wall, a poster that many people want and few possess! Learn More about condition grades 
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