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Auction History Result 1c152 ECSTASY 8 photolobbies R40s Hedy Lamarr early nudie, many nude images of her as Hedy Kiesler! Date Sold 5/3/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Undated (probably 1940s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Photolobbies (11x14; LCs; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Ekstase (released in the U.S. in 1936 as "Ecstasy"), the 1933 Gustav Machaty Austrian/Czechoslovakian romantic melodrama ("Now! It can be shown!"; "The Most Talked of Picture in the World Today!"; "International prize winning motion picture"; "The most whispered about picture in the world..."; "A Bold Story of a Delicate Subject!"; "The Stark Naked Truth of a Woman's Desire for Love!"; "Daring! Revealing! Shocking!"; "Filmed in secrecy!"; "The naked truth of a woman's emotions laid bare!"; "Recommended for adults only!"; "When a woman's love is fulfilled!") starring Hedy Lamarr (billed as "Hedy Kiesler", which was her real name!), Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Emil Jerman, and Pierre Nay. Note that Hedy Lamarr had made four previous movies in her native Austria before she appeared nude in this, her fifth movie, and created a worldwide sensation! She married a rich German manufacturer, who attempted to buy up all the prints of the movie, to no avail. In 1937, she divorced her husband and moved to Hollywood, where she was renamed Hedy Lamarr, and she immediately became a major star. She lived a long and eventful life, and entire books can (and have) been filled with her exploits! In 1940, when she was a major Hollywood star, "Ecstasy" was shown throughout the United States, mostly in midnight shows, and it continued to be shown throughout the 1940s and early 1950s in limited releases around the country. Some posters survive from some of those showings, but next-to-no original 1933 posters from any country are known to exist (because we are likely to never have first release posters, we have included the taglines from the re-releases in our description above, which we normally do not do). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that some of these cards contain unclothed women, so we have placed white bars over those areas, for those who are bothered by such images. Of course, the actual cards do not have those white bars! Also note that on this movie, and on several other releases of the 1930s and 1940s, lesser studios sometimes issued a set of very different looking lobby cards! These were a "photolobby" set with glossy color scenes from the movie, and were printed on the type of paper used for 11x14 stills, not the type used for lobby cards. It is possible that some of these movies also had a regular lobby card set, but I believe in most cases there was only a photolobby set (in the case of this movie, I feel certain that this is the only set of cards created for this re-release of this movie). Condition: very good to fine. The stills have some very minor border wear and each of them is curled in the left 2" and the right 1" (this is NOT a crease in any way and would disappear when the photolobbies are placed under weight). Six of the photolobbies are in excellent condition. The one with her clothed being hugged has brown stains in the upper left and creases in the lower left border. The one with the close up of her face has a 3" crease in the upper right. Learn More about condition grades 
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