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Auction History Result 8x203 GREAT LIE linen Belgian '45 Bette Davis,Brent, there are some things a woman has to lie about! Date Sold 12/8/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (probably 1945; from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 14 1/4") (Learn More) The Great Lie, the 1941 Edmund Goulding romantic love triangle adultery melodrama ("There are some things a woman has to lie about ...to a man!"; "'Sometimes there's a terrible penalty for telling the truth...'"; "From a novel by Polan Banks"; about a woman who marries, but her husband quickly dies in a plane crash, and then she finds out that his ex-girlfriend is pregnant with his child!) starring Bette Davis ("is better than in 'The Old Maid' in her new triumph"), George Brent, Mary Astor (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Lucile Watson, and Hattie McDaniel 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 poster was printed on the back of an old map! During World War II in Belgium, there was a massive paper shortage, and so they used whatever paper they could find to print the movie posters, and in many cases they used old maps or old posters, and printed the movie posters on the reverse. They often also made the posters smaller, so they could get more posters printed. This practice continued for a couple of years after World War II. Since these posters are original, and since all such posters are printed on the back of maps or other posters, this is not considered a defect by almost all collectors. What IS linenbacking? "Linenbacking" is a process that is used to preserve movie posters (the best restorers de-acidify the poster during the restoration process), and to make them far easier to display (it is much easier and less expensive to frame a linenbacked poster). When linenbacking is done correctly, it adds to the value of the poster, and is NOT a defect! Note that the specific poster in this auction either was not linenbacked all that well, OR the poster had more significant defects that were well corrected or both (you can tell which type it is by reading our written comments about the poster's condition). In general, know that we received many of the linenbacked posters we are currently selling already linenbacked, but we have examined every poster EXTREMELY carefully, and we did our best to describe what condition the poster was in PRIOR to restoration, the defects the poster had PRIOR to restoration (in the "Pre-Restoration Defects & Quality of Restoration" section), any unrestored defects, and, when it seemed worth noting, something about the quality of the restoration itself. Many other auction houses claim to match what we do in this area, but EVERY person who regularly buys movie posters from major auctions can tell you this is just not the case! We never intentionally overgrade a single item, we never "accidentally" miss defects, and we never enhance a single image! Condition: good to very good. The poster was printed on the back of a map . There is bleed through from the printing on the back in the light background areas, and in the solid "flesh" colored part of the faces. The poster had three horizontal folds. Other than being printed on the back of a map, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see some bleed through in the areas described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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