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Auction History Result Lot #: #197 FLYING DOWN TO RIO linen 1st Belgian release movie poster '36!  Date Sold 12/18/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 8 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original 1936 Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 24 1/2" x 33") (Learn More) Flying Down to Rio, the classic 1933 Thornton Freeland South America Rio De Janeiro Brazil airplane aviation pilot romantic love triangle musical ("Musical Romance Staged in the Clouds..."; "Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!"; "Come, take a joy ride through the sky!"; "Romance that soars on the wings of song") starring Dolores Del Rio, Gene Raymond, Paul Roulien, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Blanche Friderici, and Margaret Earlich. Note that this was the first of the ten movies Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made together, which explains why they were fourth and fifth billed, and not pictured on any poster art! Also note that this movie was made at a time when Hollywood had a "love affair" with South America in general, and Brazil (and Rio de Janeiro). Paul Roulien was a Brazilian singer who came to Hollywood in 1931, and he sang in several movies. In this movie, he was part of a romantic love triangle with Dolores Del Rio and Gene Raymond, and it was his best role. In 1934, he returned to Brazil and quit acting in 1938. 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 this pre-war Belgian poster contains images of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, while none of the first release U.S. posters did. This is obviously because they were unknown at the time of the first U.S. release in 1933, and so were not considered worthy of being included on the posters, but by the time of this Belgian release in 1936, they had become major stars (in just three short years!). We can exactly date this Belgian poster to 1936 because of the theater imprint at top left, which gives the date. Also note that this Belgian poster measures 24 1/2" x 33" and is linenbacked. Condition: very good to fine. This poster was linenbacked, and it had very minor defects, and was well backed. Read below for a description of those defects, and about the quality of the restoration (if I found anything worth commenting on!). You should also look at our "super-sized" image of the actual poster (we are the only major auction company we know of that gives accurate detailed pre-restoration information about linenbacked posters to our bidders, but we wish everyone did!). the poster had extremely tiny paper loss at the middle crossfold, small paper loss at the center of the bottom blank border, and very slight wear on the foldlines and around the edges of the poster. Note that the poster was mounted on a very thin linen, and so it has picked up a few minor creases down the right side of the poster that are in both the poster and the linen (they are not very noticeable or distracting). The person who linenbacked the poster did not leave any excess linen around the edges. It would be easy for a talented restorer to re-back this poster on to a better weight linen, leaving some excess around the edges. But with or without re-backing, this is a great poster with few defects! Learn More about condition grades 
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