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Auction History Result 9k0002 DARK VICTORY 28x37 special poster 1939 best different art of sexy Bette Davis, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/5/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Special Movie Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 37 1/4" [70 x 95 cm]) (Learn More) Dark Victory, the classic 1939 Edmund Goulding romantic love triangle medical doctor high society melodrama ("Twice Academy Award winner now brings to the screen her greatest role!"; "From the play by George Emerson Brewer, Jr. and Bertram Bloch"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a rich young socialite who spends her time with her prize horses, but when she discovers she has a brain tumor, she goes to a top surgeon who operates on her and removes the tumor, and they fall in love; she realizes the cancer is terminal, and she leaves him, but Humphrey Bogart is her horse trainer who gets her to tell him why she's been acting unruly, and she ends up returning to the doctor to marry him and live out her remaining days!) starring Bette Davis (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon. Note that this was the last time Bette Davis would co-star with Humphrey Bogart, after having appeared together in a number of Warner Bros. movies between 1931 and 1937. The movie is rightfully considered one of the greatest melodrama "tearjerkers" of all time! Finally, note that most of the first release posters for this movie billed Bette Davis as "Academy Award Winner" (with an image of an Oscar statuette next to that). This does NOT mean that this is a re-release poster advertising that Miss Davis won the Academy Award for this movie (in fact, while she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, she did not win). Rather, it refers to the fact that Bette Davis had previously won an Academy Award (for "Jezebel") and the studio was proud of that fact and advertised it on the poster! 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 really cool special poster, which has a completely different image from any other poster on this movie we have seen. It has art similar to that used on "other company" posters of this time, so it could have possibly been created by that company, or it could have been created for a specific local theater, but that information has been lost through the sands of time (there might have been information on the back of it, but it was restored and backed, so no one can see the information that might have been there). Because the poster was backed onto a heavy backing board, it will need to be shipped in a very large flat package that measures approximately 30" x 40", so incorporate that cost of shipping into your bidding. Condition: good. The poster might have had larger blank borders prior to backing, but we don't know, because we have never seen another example of this poster. The person who mounted the poster onto a heavy backing board appears to have done so to conserve the poster, but they did not do restoration to it, and you can clearly see exactly what defects it had (it had many smudges, stains, and scuffs throughout, with some nail holes scattered throughout). While it views pretty well from a reasonable viewing distance, we certainly understand that many people would choose to have restoration performed (which could be done without re-backing the poster). Please bear its defects in mind (and look at our super-sized image) before bidding on this exceptionally rare poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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