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Auction History Result 6w038 CONQUEST WC '37 Greta Garbo as Marie Walewska, Charles Boyer as Napoleon Bonaparte, rare! Date Sold 5/5/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Conquest (also released as "Marie Walewska"), the 1937 Clarence Brown historical France/Poland romantic revolutionary war melodrama ("The love story of Marie Walewska"; "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Mightiest!"; based on the novel by Waclaw Gasiorowski; about a Polish woman who Napoleon was infatuated with, and the Polish legislature urged her to have an affair with him, so that it would help their country!; she was one of several women Napoleon had major affairs with, including, of course, Josephine, and his second wife, but he also had documented affairs with a couple dozen other women) starring Greta Garbo (in the title role as Marie Walewska), Charles Boyer (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Napoleon Bonaparte), Reginald Owen, Alan Marshall, Henry Stephenson, Leif Erikson, Dame May Whitty, C. Henry Gordon, and Maria Ouspenskaya NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an incredibly rare window card. We have never auctioned it before! Also note that the card measures very slightly under 14" x 22" (an extremely tiny amount in each direction!) and has no left, right, or bottom blank borders, but it has NOT been trimmed (this was done at a time when MGM was experimenting with having as few borders as possible). Also note that this poster has been paperbacked. What is paperbacking? This means the poster was backed onto a paper backing (acid-free), that is similar in feel to that of the original poster (except somewhat heavier). It is a similar process to linenbacking, except that most collectors use linenbacking for one-sheets and paperbacking for half-sheets, inserts, window cards, and lobby cards. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. Prior to paperbacking, the window card had its top 6 1/4" trimmed off, which included a tagline area that read "METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER'S MIGHTIEST!", and also the very top edge of the image. There was some very minor wear around the edges and a few minor creases scattered in the lettering near the center of the card. Overall, the window card was in fair to good condition prior to paperbacking (depending on how you value that top tagline area that was missing). The window card was pretty well backed, but the restorer either did not know about the missing tagline, or the owner did not care about recreating it, and so a top blank area was simply placed above the image (see our image), and the card displays well, and few people would realize that top tagline area was missing. Learn More about condition grades 
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