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GIRLS' DORMITORY ('36) GIRLS' DORMITORY ('36) Italian misc OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2a051 GIRLS' DORMITORY linen Italian 76x80 1937 Corbella art of sexy Simone Simon, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/8/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Movie Poster (measures 76 1/4" x 80" [194 x 203 cm]) (Learn More) Girls' Dormitory, the 1936 Irving Cummings romantic melodrama (based on the play by Ladislas Fodor; about a director of an all-girl school in Switzerland, who has a relationship with a female professor there, but he becomes involved with a beautiful young student, and it is unclear throughout the movie who he will end up with) starring Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon (billed on U.S. posters as "Introducing A New Personality Simone Simon"), Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen, and Shirley Deane. Note that Simone Simon started acting in Europe in 1931, but was signed by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1936 to a Hollywood contract, and he billed her in the above way in this movie. In 1938, she became disenchanted with the roles she was given in Hollywood and she returned to France, where she had a starring role in "La Bete Humaine". In 1941, she returned to the U.S. and had a second U.S. career in movies such as "All That Money Can Buy" and "Cat People"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: T. Corbella Important Added Info: Note that we have only once before auctioned an example of this poster, and that was 4 years ago. The person who purchased it then has reconsigned it to us, so it is still the only example of this poster we have ever auctioned! Also note that this is an extremely rare pre-World War II Italian poster! Virtually no Italian posters survive from before, during, or right after World War II (mostly only pre-war heavy stock lobby cards, and even those are rare). Apparently there were many paper shortages in Italy during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all pre-World War II posters! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds, and tears and small areas of paper loss on parts of several foldlines. It had darkening on most of the foldlines, but it primarily shows in the white background areas. There was staining and tack holes in the left of the poster, in the white background area and in the bottom white area. The poster was backed onto linen, and slight restoration was performed to parts of the foldlines, but many other parts were left alone (see our image). After it was backed, someone took two pieces of wooden molding and stapled the excess linen at the top and bottom of the poster to each piece of molding, and this allowed them to display the poster on a wall using hooks on the back of the top piece of molding (and no need for a frame or Plexiglas). Certainly, the new owner can display the poster in this way, or they can choose to remove the molding from the top and bottom of the poster and have it framed. Learn More about condition grades 
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