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Auction History Result 1x065 WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER trade ad '44 Irene Dunne & Alan Marshal, Hirschfeld art! Date Sold 6/17/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Trade-Ad (measures 9" x 12 1/2" [23 x 32 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) The White Cliffs of Dover, the 1944 Clarence Brown World War II (WWII) England patriotic romantic melodrama ("The romance that will live forever!"; "The greatest love story of our time!"; "Based on the poem 'The White Cliffs' by Alice Duer Miller"; a tearjerker about an American woman who marries an English nobleman right before World War I, and he is killed in action, and she raises their son, but when World War II starts, he wants to be involved and she can't bear the thought of losing him too, but ultimately she relents, and he is in fact killed in action; obviously, this sort of movie was designed to help people during World War II recognize that the needs of their country came ahead of their own) starring Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson, C. Aubrey Smith, Dame May Whitty, Gladys Cooper, Peter Lawford, and Elizabeth Taylor (12 years-old, in a bit part). Note that the young son is played by Roddy McDowall, and when he grows up, he becomes Peter Lawford! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that from the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks (and sometimes those books are separated and the ads are sold individually), but they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. The trade ad offered here was NOT removed from a yearbook or magazine, but was printed individually. It comes to us from the daughter of an MGM studio executive, who took home samples of these great ads (which explains why they are in such great condition, because they were never mailed to a theater). Condition: good to very good. There is some tattering along the right edge of the ad. The ad is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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