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Auction History Result 4r349 HOTEL IMPERIAL linen French 1p '39 c/u of Ray Milland French kissing beautiful Isa Miranda! Date Sold 4/9/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures approximately 46" x 62") (Learn More) Hotel Imperial, the 1939 Robert Florey World War I (WWI) romantic revenge melodrama ("Two trapped by love... amid the danger and chaos of a hate-torn world!"; about a woman who believes her sister committed suicide because of the man she was involved with, and she decides to get revenge in an incredibly elaborate scheme, beginning with getting a job as a maid in the hotel where he lives) starring Isa Miranda (a major Italian actress, who made her Hollywood debut in this movie, but she spoke no English, and delivered her lines phonetically, which did not help at all, and she returned to Italy after one more U.S. movie), Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois, and Don Cossack Chorus. Note that this movie had a very troubled background. It was first started in the early 1930s when it was to be a sound remake of the silent movie of the same title (which was made in 1927 with Pola Negri), starring Marlene Dietrich, but she did not like the script, and she quit after much filming, causing the studio to lose much money. A few years later, Paramount tried to make it again with Margaret Sullavan in the lead role, but she broke her arm and that ended that. At this point, Dietrich returned, this time with von Sternberg, but the studio had had enough of her, and they hired Italian star Isa Miranda, but they may not have known she did not speak English, and that certainly did not help! A few years later, the movie was remade as "Five Graves to Cairo". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. In France at the time this movie was released, there was a huge paper shortage during World War II, and so they printed many of the movie posters at the time on the back of already printed posters (a practice pretty common in Belgium and France during World War II, when there were huge paper shortages). The poster offered here was printed on the back of another poster, and it shows through in various parts of the poster (mostly as a sort of light "ghosting"), and much more in the lighter colored areas of the poster. See our image to better see exactly what bleed through there is. Other than the bleed through, the poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some foldlines. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept the bleed through described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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