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Auction History Result z351 WUTHERING HEIGHTS other company title movie lobby card '39 Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon Date Sold 5/29/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Other Company Movie Title Lobby Card (TC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Wuthering Heights, the classic 1939 William Wyler (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic unrequited love melodrama ("I am torn with Desire -- Tortured by hate!"; "....The strangest love story ever told... burning emotional fury!"; "I am Heathcliff I love a woman who belongs to another man by law... My love was fierce... My hate is burning... I Will Have My Vengeance!"; "I am Heathcliff... I married a woman I loathe... to spite the one woman I love!"; "A Story of Vengeful Thwarted Love"; "Adapted by Ben Hecht and Charles Mac-Arthur from the powerful novel by Emily Bronte [actually, they only adapted the first 22 chapters!]"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a poor beggar who is 'adopted' by a kindly rich man and when he grows up, he falls in love with the man's daughter, but is hated by the rich man's son who has inherited his father's wealth, and he runs away to become rich so that she will feel free to love him, but when he returns rich, he discovers she has married someone else!) starring Merle Oberon (as Cathy), Laurence Olivier (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Heathcliff), David Niven (as Edgar), Flora Robson (as Ellen Dean), Donald Crisp (as Dr. Kenneth), Hugh Williams (as Hindley), Geraldine Fitzgerald (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Isabella), Leo G. Carroll (as Joseph), Cecil Humphreys (as Judge Linton), and Miles Mander (as Lockwood) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this card has a stamp on the back that indicates it came from the legendary "Cozy Theater" collection! Also note that this was printed by the "other company". This was a company in the Midwest that from roughly 1936 to roughly 1941 printed its own one-sheets and lobby card sets (and a very few inserts and half-sheets) for three major studio movies (Warner Brothers, Paramount and United Artists, but no other studios). The posters and lobby cards are from the original release of the movie, and almost always have completely different artwork from the regular studio release. They never have the name of the releasing studio on the poster or any of the lobby cards. Sometimes, "other company" posters or lobby cards have images that are the equal of those from the regular studio release posters or lobby cards! Condition: very good. There were pinholes in the top left and bottom left image background area that left enlarged holes when they were removed and someone put tape over the back of those two areas and then did slight touch up to the front in the background. There was a small tear in the lower right border and someone put a piece of tape on the back of that area. There are some creases and tiny staple holes around the edges of the card that were not touched up at all. I want to mention something else about this "other company" title lobby card (see above for more about what this means). This is one of the cases where the poster and title lobby card from the "other company" is far superior to that of the regular studio issue. Samuel Goldwyn had the bizarre concept of promoting this movie as a sort of horror film (perhaps he was afraid people would be turned off by knowing they were going to see an adaptation of a Victorian romantic melodrama)! The regular studio issue poster has Laurence Olivier pictured in green (the same green that Universal used for all its monsters!). This "other company" title lobby card has photographic images of the top three stars from the movie, and shows a large image of Olivier and Oberon at the bottom of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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