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Auction History Result 2s284 AFFAIR IN MONTE CARLO linen 1sh '53 art of sexy Merle Oberon embraced by Richard Todd! Date Sold 6/12/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) 24 Hours of a Woman's Life (released in the U.S. in 1953 as "Affair in Monte Carlo"), the 1952 Victor Saville English romantic love triangle compulsive gambling casino melodrama ("They gambled life, love... everything - in a paradise of temptation!"; a complicated and fascinating story of a man at a wedding where the bride runs off with a man she met the day before; the guests are stunned, but the man tells them all about a woman he knew many years before who did something very similar, and through flashback, he tells how the woman left her fiance to be with a compulsive gambler who had just lost all his money at a Monte Carlo casino, and was about to commit suicide; the woman decided she loved him, and convinced him to not kill himself; but when she finds him back at the casino, she realizes she has been a fool, and she returned to her fiance; as the man wraps up his story, his wife comes to him, and it is the woman from his own story, and he was that fiance who was left years before!) starring Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray, Peter Reynolds, Joan Dowling, June Clyde, Peter Illing, and Jacques Brunius NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the crossfolds. There was tape on the back of the vertical foldline between the middle and bottom crossfold and it darkened that area. There was minor wear on the other folds and in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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