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Auction History Result 6f082 BEAU BRUMMELL linen Belgian '54 art of full-length Stewart Granger & kissing Liz Taylor! Date Sold 10/5/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 1/2" x 19" [37 x 48 cm]) (Learn More) Beau Brummell (and the Beauty!), the 1954 Curtis Bernhardt English/U.S. historical royalty romantic melodrama ("To the gallery of great motion pictures MGM brings 'Beau Brummell' and The Beauty!"; "Soldier, Poet, Adventurer, Rogue, Gambler, Lover!"; "Millions know his name, but this is the flesh-and-blood man soldier, poet, adventurer, rogue, gambler, Lover!"; "Here was a man with a lust for life... A man who was a ... Soldier ... Lover ... Gambler ... Adventurer ... Fascinating to all women yet faithful in his fashion only to one ... The lady who feared to share his storm-tossed destiny!"; "In gorgeous color!"; "Based On the Play Written for Richard Mansfield by Clyde Fitch"; set in the early 1800s, loosely based on the life of George Bryan Brummell, who was a soldier with a modest inheritance, but he became the favorite of the Prince of Wales, and he rose in English society; he was famous for his stylish fashion sense and his great wit; but it went to his head, and he gambled himself deep into debt, and he fell out of favor with the prince, eventually forced into debtor's prison before dying in a French asylum from syphilis!) starring Stewart Granger (in the title role as Beau Brummell), Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov (as the Prince of Wales), Robert Morley (as King George III), and James Donald NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. The poster originally had a blank top that was neatly trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). The poster had rough creases on the foldlines and some tears in the borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, and the restorer replaced the missing top area with blank paper. Learn More about condition grades 
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