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Auction History Result 9g338 KITTY FOYLE linen Belgian '48 great romantic close up of Ginger Rogers & Dennis Morgan! Date Sold 7/15/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1948 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14 1/2" x 21 1/2" [37 x 55 cm]) (Learn More) Kitty Foyle, the 1940 Sam Wood (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) working women romantic melodrama ("Ginger Rogers brings to life Christopher Morley's 'White Collar Girl' Kitty Foyle The natural history of a woman"; "Dear White Collar Girls: Here's the first real honest-to-Pitman picture of you - you fighting for your love and living in a man's world - you in your slip and hair in curlers, all alone by the telephone that never seems to ring. It's as candid as the Boss when he bawls you out - as true-to-life as the talk in the Ladies' Lounge. It's the big romance you've either had or dreamed about - from the big best-seller of the year. -Kitty Foyle"; "Screen play by Dalton Trumbo"; "Based on the novel 'Kitty Foyle' by Christopher Morley"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Ginger Rogers (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Kitty Foyle), Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Ernest Cossart, Gladys Cooper, Mary Treen, and K.T. Stevens 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 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! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was printed on the back of a map (see above). It was in excellent condition, but the map had many lines on it, and you can see the bleed-through from the map around the edges, and there is a line from the map that runs down the left of the poster, going down the center of Rogers' face (see our image). It might be like this on other examples of this poster, but it would depend on what piece of the map was used (and we have never seen another example of this poster!). Other than being printed on the back of a map, the poster was in nice condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was well backed, but please look at our super-sized image so you can see the bleed-through referred to above. Learn More about condition grades 
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