eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9g362 TALK OF THE TOWN linen Belgian '46 art of Jean Arthur + Grant, & Colman playing chess! Date Sold 7/15/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1946 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11" x 18" [28 x 46 cm]) (Learn More) The Talk of the Town, the 1942 George Stevens romantic love triangle crime comedy ("Romance vibrantly alive! Drama poignantly real! Laughter joyously human!"; "Three people who make life more exciting.... love more precious... laughter more joyous!"; "A motion picture made for laughs... thrills... cheers!"; "Great stars bring you a heart-stir-ring screen adventure!"; "Screen play by Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about an eminent law professor who is staying at the home of a school teacher, and he lets a gardener stay there as well, but the gardener is actually an escapee from a prison, and eventually, the professor and the teacher learn of his true identity, and the professor clears him of the charges against him, even though it means he will lose the school teacher to him romantically; this was a good movie that was made better by the tremendous "star power" of the three lead actors!) starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Tom Tyler, and Charles Dingle 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: very good to fine. Even though the poster was printed on the back of a map, it hardly interferes with the front at all, likely because the front has almost all dark colors. I think most people would not be aware this poster was printed on the back of a map, and it displays quite nicely! Learn More about condition grades
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