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The Nun's Story, the 1959 Fred Zinnemann (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) religious Catholic church missionary melodrama ("The most gripping and dramatic personal story of this decade is on the screen!"; "All the human depth and electrifying drama of the tremendous best-seller!"; "On this fateful autumn day, the nun called Sister Luke under special and extraordinary circumstances was forever released from all her vows. She left her convent because in her own words she was no longer a true nun. And her story swiftly became the most gripping and dramatic personal story of this decade."; "From the very beginning, she was not like the others... From the very beginning, this is not like the other motion pictures..."; "From the most gripping and dramatic best-seller of this decade! The story of the girl who left her convent..."; "Filmed in Belgium, Italy, Africa and mostly in the conscience of a young and beautiful girl."; "From the book by Kathryn C. Hulme"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Audrey Hepburn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "as Sister Luke, who was not like the others"), Peter Finch ("as the cynical Congo Surgeon Dr. Fortunati"), Edith Evans (billed as "Dame Edith Evans"), Peggy Ashcroft (billed as "Dame Peggy Ashcroft"), Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Lionel Jeffries, and Beatrice Straight
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Important Added Info: Note that this still was consigned to us by legendary collector/dealer Marty Davis! Marty was hired in 1972 to evaluate the entire collection of W. Ward Marsh (1893-1971), who was the film critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper from 1919, until his retirement in 1970. In 1919 Marsh wrote his first of 23,000 movie reviews for the Plain Dealer. Marsh died less than a year after his retirement in 1970. His library, and photographic and memorabilia archives were given to the proprietor of Cleveland's finest bookstore. Marty Davis was the first person with a background in film history and collectibles to examine the archives. He worked for three to four hours a day, for six months, and his compensation was his pick of the archives. This still is from the W. Ward Marsh archives, and it was stamped on the back by Marty Davis to indicate that it came from this legendary collection.

Note that this still appears in every way to be original U.S. release EXCEPT that there is one very tiny line of French type in the lower right. It reads, "IMPRIME AUX ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE". A collector has told us that he believes this means the still was printed for use in areas that included French-speaking parts of Canada, but that it WAS printed in the U.S., and that makes complete sense to us (and we have seen this on stills from the 1940s through the early 2000s, so it has certainly been done for an extremely long time)! So it is an original still from 1959, but it was printed partially for use in French-speaking Canada. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

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