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Auction History Result 5s0423 PHANTOM LADY Belgian 1946 Franchot Tone, sexy Ella Raines, Cornell Woolrich, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/24/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1946 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 1/2" x 22 3/4" [37 x 58 cm]) (Learn More) Phantom Lady, the 1944 Robert Siodmak New York City crime mystery film noir ("The most talked about mystery in ten years!"; "Based on the novel by William Irish", which was the pseudonym Cornell Woolrich used when writing this book; about a man who goes to a bar and meets a woman, and they share their sad stories, and he goes home and finds his wife has been murdered, and he tells the police about the woman in the bar, but nobody can find her, and he is sentenced to death for the murder of his wife, and his secretary tries desperately to find the woman from the bar, who is the "phantom lady" of the title) starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Thomas Gomez, Aurora Miranda (sister of Carmen Miranda!), Elisha Cook Jr., Fay Helm, and Andrew Tombes 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 extremely rare poster. We have only auctioned one in all our years of auctioning and that was a decade ago (and now that very same poster has been reconsigned to us for this auction, so it is still the only example we have ever auctioned!). This poster is printed on the back of a map or part of another poster! Why is this? During World War II, there were massive paper shortages in Belgium. Where Belgian movie posters had previously been approximately 23" x 32", there was such a shortage of paper that not only did they often have to print them on the back of other posters or maps, but during World War II, the size of the posters shrank dramatically, with some of them as small as 11" x 15". This situation continued even after World War II, until around 1946 or 1947, when they began making Belgian movie posters in a size of roughly 14" x 22", which became the standard size, and continued for decades! The posters like these that are from during World War II or immediately after, and which are printed in a small size (often on the back of other posters or maps) are INCREDIBLY rare (surely they did not print many, and surely many of them were soon recycled themselves! Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. The poster is printed on the back of part of a map . There are some creases scattered throughout the poster and it was folded across the middle. There are pinholes in the top corners. There is a faint yellow stain in the top left of Tone's credit, and some in the top left corner. It is fortunate that most of the poster is dark colors, because there is almost no bleed-through from the map printing on the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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