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Auction History Result s290 CASABLANCA movie lobby card '42 here's looking at you, kid! Date Sold 1/15/2008Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. The card had diagonal paper loss in the top right corner, and in the bottom corners, coming close to the edge of the red background in the bottom corners, and just extending into the red background in the top right corner. There were pinholes, creases, and smudges in the blank borders. There was a smudge in the top of the "C" in "CASABLANCA", and one in the top edge of the left background area (at the top of the wooden beam), but otherwise, the image area was unaffected by the border defects. A very talented restorer mounted the card on to a very lightweight paper backing, and then used a combination of new paper laid over the existing blank borders, and some touch up to those areas to expertly restore the borders. The card looks and displays fantastically, and there is the tiniest amount of restoration in the actual image or title area. I would think most collectors would not realize the border repair this card has had, and it will certainly display fantastically on anyone's wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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