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SONG TO REMEMBER ('45) SONG TO REMEMBER ('45) Italian 2p OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2f025 SONG TO REMEMBER linen Italian 2p '51 Ballester art of Merle Oberon & Cornel Wilde as Chopin! Date Sold 9/3/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1951 (from the first release of this movie in Italy) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Two-Panel (known in Italy as a "4 Fogli") Movie Poster (2p; measures 55" x 78" [140 x 198 cm]) (Learn More) A Song to Remember, the 1945 Charles Vidor classical music biographical melodrama ("As long as all the world loves a lover... this romance will live!"; "A new kind of motion picture! A new miracle of Technicolor!"; "A glorious new form of entertainment in Technicolor!"; "As long as dreamers dream... as long as lovers love... Their story will be remembered!"; "Shocking? Scandalous? Shameful?"; "All-embracing! All-consuming! All-powerful!"; about composer Frederic Chopin) starring Paul Muni, Merle Oberon (as George Sand), Cornel Wilde (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Frederic Chopin), Nina Foch, George Coulouris, Stephen Bekassy (as Franz Lizst), George Macready, and Gregory Gaye. Note that this movie as originally set to be directed by Frank Capra after he completed Lost Horizon with Francis Lederer as Chopin, Paul Muni as Elsner and Marlene Dietrich as George Sand (Capra had first tried to borrow Spencer Tracy and Greta Garbo from MGM, but they refused). But production delays on Lost Horizon forced Capra to abandon the project, and it sat dead for eight years, until Columbia Pictures revived the project in 1944 with Charles Vidor directing and while Paul Muni still starred as Elsner, Merle Oberon and Cornel Wilde were hired for the other leads. Capra sued for breach of contract in 1946 but the lawsuit was eventually was settled out of court. Interestingly, director Vidor, who perhaps was unhappy with this movie, finally started to film it in 1960 as "Song Without End", but he died of a heart attack during filming and was replaced by George Cukor, so that was his final movie. Finally, note that Paul Muni always had a contract that required he be top billed, so he was top billed here, even though he is clearly not the star of the movie! In addition, Columbia was surely afraid of how this movie would do at the box office (biographies of composers do not usually do well), and so they created an ad campaign built around a "jury" of stars proclaiming that "A Song to Remember is the most thrillingly different picture we've ever seen... a glorious new standard in picture entertainment", and that jury consisted of a VERY eclectic group, including Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Fritz Kreisler, Irene Dunne, James Montgomery Flagg, Ginger Rogers, Benny Goodman, Edward G. Robinson, Al Jolson, Bob Ripley (of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"), and Abbott & Costello, and the movie received a very large and elaborate pressbook! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Anselmo Ballester Important Added Info: Note that this poster is dated 1951, and this movie was first released in Japan and Germany in 1949, so it COULD be a 1951 re-release, but we think it is much more likely that the first release in Italy was not until 1951, so we are calling this a 1951 first release poster. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept the uncertainty of whether it could possibly be a re-release (but we think it is highly unlikely, and we have never seen an earlier poster). Note that it is difficult to accurately date Italian posters, and some unmarked re-release posters can be extremely difficult to distinguish from first releases, so please bear that in mind before you place a bid. We used our best information to date this poster, but we can't always guarantee that the Italian posters we sell are not from an unmarked re-release, but this will only prove to be true in a very tiny number of cases. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The bottom right corner of the poster (an area measuring 21" long by 4" to 6" high) was neatly cut off (it could be that they were removing something from the poster, or it could just be that someone needed some paper!). Otherwise, the poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some foldlines, with an 11" tear in the middle of the right of the poster (solely in the blue background). Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and the restorer did an excellent job recreating the missing bottom right corner (only blank blue area and blank white border), and the poster displays well. Learn More about condition grades 
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