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Auction History Result 4c0095 CAMPANE A MARTELLO linen Italian locandina 1949 Cesselon art, Gina Lollobrigida's first, rare! Date Sold 4/30/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Locandina Movie Poster (measures 13" x 26 1/2" [33 x 67 cm]) (Learn More) Campane a Martello (literally translates to "Hammer Bells"), the 1949 Luigi Zampa Italian romantic comedy melodrama (about a maid from a small Italian town who goes to a big city in World War II, and she becomes a prostitute, and she sends all the money she makes to a priest in her home town, so that he can save it and she can open a clothing store when she returns, but when she does get back, she finds the priest has died, and his successor thought the money she sent was for charity, and spent it all on children, and all the townspeople think she is rich and they want even more money from her!) starring Gina Lollobrigida, Yvonne Sanson, Eduardo De Filippo, Clelia Matania, Ernesto Almirante, Carlo Romano and Carlo Giustini. Note that this movie was filmed in an Italian version with the above actors, and the same director also filmed it in English (under the title "Children of Chance") with Patricia Medina, Manning Whiley, and Yvonne Mitchell in the starring roles, and an all-English cast! Also note that one would think that Gina Lollobrigida would have been an overnight success, but actually, it took her several years! She made her first movie in 1945 or 1946 when she was 18 (it was a bit part, and she had a few other bit parts in movies over the next two years). In 1947, she entered the Miss Italy pageant, but she only came in third (first and second were taken by Lucia Bose and Gianna Maria Canale, both of whom went on to long film careers). In 1948, she was the female lead of the film "Pagliacci", but it was not a starring role. The following year, she made this movie, which was her first starring role, and within a few years she was an international star! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Angelo Cesselon Important Added Info: Note that we previously auctioned this very poster, which is a "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie, and it has been reconsigned to us, so it is still the only example we have ever auctioned! In fact, we have never auctioned any other poster from this movie, except for an Argentinean poster from 1958. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had minor wear on the fold. It had some pinholes and paper loss around the edges, extending into the background in three areas. It had some stains in the bottom blank border and by some of the pinholes. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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