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Auction History Result 7j0999 CAMILLE WC 1937 romantic portrait of lovers Robert Taylor & Greta Garbo, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/2/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Camille, the 1937 George Cukor romantic love triangle melodrama ("Greta Garbo loves Robert Taylor in Camille"; set in France and based on the play and novel 'La Dame aux Camelias' by Alexandre Dumas Fils; about the French son of a noble family who is a law student and he falls for a beautiful prostitute; she reforms for him and they live in poverty, but the young man's father feels disgraced, and he convinces the woman to give up his son, and she returns to her former life, and he, not knowing what his father did, meets her publicly and denounces her, but she does not enlighten him, and at the climax, she dies holding a gift he gave her) starring Greta Garbo (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Marguerite 'Camille' Gautier), Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Lenore Ulric, Laura Hope Crews, and Rex O'Malley. Note that there was a silent version of this made in 1927 starring Norma Talmadge. 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 we have never before auctioned this window card! Also note that the card measures very slightly under 14" x 22" (an extremely tiny amount in each direction!) and has no left, right, or bottom blank borders, but it has NOT been trimmed (this was done at a time when MGM was experimenting with having as few borders as possible). Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a heavy paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. Prior to paperbacking, the window card had tears, stains, and paper loss around the edges, with some scattered in the image and some in the stars' faces. Overall, the window card was in fair to good condition prior to paperbacking. Given the poster's many defects, the restorer did a pretty nice job, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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