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Auction History Result 6a102 ESCAPE TO PARADISE Belgian '40s different art of cowboys Breen & Taylor, Marla Shelton! Date Sold 4/16/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1940s (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/4" x 16 1/4" [29 x 41 cm]) (Learn More) Escape to Paradise, the 1939 Erle C. Kenton South America romantic love triangle musical comedy (a wacky story of an American man who goes to South America, and through the tall tale told by a teenage boy, ends up thought to be a major importer of the local tea, or mate, but everything works out in the end and he finds love too!) starring Bobby Breen, Kent Taylor, Marla Shelton, Joyce Compton, and Pedro de Cordoba 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: This poster is printed on the back of a poster (it is on the back of a part of a Cary Grant poster, and only Cary Grant's head is showing)! 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! Condition: good. The poster was printed on the back of part of a poster (see above). You can see slight bleed-through from the printing on the back, mostly in the blank borders. There is a horizontal crease across the top of the image with pinholes, small tears and tiny paper loss in the borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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