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Auction History Result 1w244 MOROCCO LC '30 Josef von Sternberg, Adolphe Menjou eyes wild-eyed sexy Marlene Dietrich! Date Sold 9/2/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Morocco, the classic 1930 Josef von Sternberg (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) military French Foreign Legion doomed romance romantic love triangle adventure melodrama (Cooper is a man who ran off to join the French Foreign Legion to escape his past, and he meets French saloon singer Marlene Dietrich, and they fall madly in love, but their romance is ill-fated) starring Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Adolphe Menjou, Ullrich Haupt, Eve Southern, and Francis McDonald. Note that both Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were at the height of their fame when they made this movie, and they worked wonderfully together! Also note that in this movie, Dietrich is sometimes dressed in men's clothes and has a passionate kiss with another woman! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that any original movie paper from this early classic Dietrich movie is extremely scarce, and lobby cards from the movie (especially ones with good images of Dietrich) are almost never offered for sale! Condition: good to very good. The card was once glued to a mat with glue on the back of all four corners and in the center of the card. Someone removed it from the mat, causing light surface paper loss on the back of the right corners, and leaving paper residue from the mat and the dried glue on the back of all four corners. When they removed the card from the center of the mat, the card ripped in a sideways V-shaped tear, but fortunately, it is in the exact center of the card, in the bottom of the mirror. There is a blue ink stain on the back of the center of the card that slightly bled through to the front and there is small surface paper loss at the left of the V-shaped tear. The person who removed it from the mat put clear tape on the back of the center of the card, but otherwise, made no attempt to repair the card or to remove the residue from the back of the corners. The above defects do not affect the front of the card, EXCEPT in the center of the card, as described above (and as clearly seen in our super-sized image). There are some faint scuff marks scattered in the card, including one in the bottom of Dietrich's hair that extends into the top of her forehead (but the scuffs in the card are absolutely not at all noticeable unless the card is tilted to the light). THE CARD IS IN MUCH BETTER CONDITION THAN THE ABOVE MAKES IT SOUND! Its only real defect that detracts from how it displays is in the center of the card. I could imagine many collectors choosing to display this great card exactly as it is, or certainly, any talented restorer could remove the tape and paper residue from the back of the four corners and from the back of the center of the card, and then could perform expert restoration to the center of the card, and the card will look incredible, and there will be little restoration anywhere on the front of the card, except in the center (in the bottom of the mirror). Learn More about condition grades 
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