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Auction History Result 1m001 CASABLANCA linen Belgian '47 Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Curtiz classic! Date Sold 2/25/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1947 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 3/4" x 15") (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. The poster originally had a blank top area that was partially trimmed off. It had been folded several times horizontally and once vertically, and there were tiny creases and fine dots of paper loss on parts of several foldlines. There were tears in the borders (more so in the right border) and some paper loss in the top border. There are the remnants of a tax stamp in the bottom right and scuff marks and smudges in Bogart's forehead. There were two long tears in the top right corner, one extending above Bogart's credit and one running into the ends of Henreid and Bergman's credits. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty much backed "as is". If I owned this great poster, I would surely have it removed from the old linen and have it properly re-backed and restored, and afterwards, it will look wonderful, and it will have little restoration within the image, except in the exact areas described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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