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Auction History Result 9g051 SUSPICION WC '41 Alfred Hitchcock, romantic c/u art of Cary Grant & Joan Fontaine Date Sold 6/9/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Suspicion, the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock crime film noir mystery thriller ("Each time they kissed... There was the thrill of love... The threat of murder!"; "She won your heart in 'Rebecca'! He drew your cheers in 'Philadelphia Story'. Thrill to them together in a suspense-romance directed by the man who did 'Rebecca'"; "Screen play by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville [Hitchcock's wife]"; "Based on the novel 'Before the Fact' by Francis Iles"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Lumsden Hare, Vernon Downing, and Auriol Lee. Note that there is controversy about the ending of this movie! Many people say that Hitchcock intended the movie to end with Grant killing Fontaine, and that the studio insisted that he change it (to preserve Grant's positive public image), but others say that this is an urban legend, and that the movie was always intended to end the way it did! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. Prior to paperbacking, the card had pinholes, tears, and areas of paper loss around the edges and some creases, tears, pinholes, stains, and smudges scattered in the image, including in the stars' faces. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to paperbacking. The poster was pretty well backed (especially considering it had significant defects), but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects, and the window card has a "restored look" to it, but it still displays pretty well. But please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above and have looked carefully at our super-sized image. Obviously, one would prefer to find a better condition example of this poster (or one with less restoration), but we have only ever seen one other example of this poster, and it had major condition issues. It might be many years before another example is offered for sale! Learn More about condition grades 
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