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Auction History Result 9g013 SUSPICION linen 1sh '41 Alfred Hitchcock, close up art of Cary Grant & Joan Fontaine! Date Sold 6/9/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 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. Important Added Info: Note that original 1941 one-sheets from this title are quite rare! It is probably because the movie was re-released in both 1953 and in 1957, and it is likely that poster exchanges used up all of their 1941 posters during those re-releases. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. Many years ago, someone trimmed off the left, top, and right blank borders, and also trimmed off the part of the bottom blank border that was below the small writing at bottom, and the poster then measured 25 1/4" x 39 1/4" (only blank white paper was affected). There was also small paper loss at the crossfolds and some tears and tiny areas of paper loss scattered on parts of several foldlines, with a 7" semi-circular tear in the left of the middle foldline, extending into the "R" of "CARY" and the "N" of "JOAN". Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, and the restorer replaced the missing paper around the edges, but did not make a huge attempt to conceal that the borders were repaired, so you can see that they were when you look close up. In addition, the poster acquired some brown dot stains in the bottom excess linen that very slightly extend into the bottom replaced border. But in spite of these defects and the restoration of them, this extremely rare poster displays quite nicely! Learn More about condition grades 
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