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Auction History Result 5j163 MAN'S CASTLE linen pre-War Belgian 1934 different art of Spencer Tracy & pretty Loretta Young! Date Sold 12/4/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 23 3/4" x 33 1/2" [60 x 85 cm]) (Learn More) Man's Castle, the 1933 Frank Borzage Depression era romantic love triangle melodrama ("Her heart was like a secret city... but his flaming love laid siege to it and captured her forevermore..."; "Theirs was a love as mighty as life itself!"; "They drank freely from the fountain of love --- intoxicated with a passion that blinded them to all but their own great romance--"; "'Love me more than yesterday - and less today than tomorrow...'"; "From the story by Lawrence Hazard"; in sharp counterpoint to the cheery romantic musicals that were popular at the time, this movie has Tracy as a wandering laborer who meets up with beautiful yet broke Loretta Young and he marries her, but, as is his style, plans to move on, but when he discovers she is pregnant, he tries to commit a major robbery so that he can leave her with enough money to take care of her and her baby; unsentimental and reflective of the desperation of those times!) starring Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Glenda Farrell (as a showgirl who wants Tracy for a playmate!), Arthur Hohl, Walter Connolly, Marjorie Rambeau, Dickie Moore, and Helen Jerome Eddy 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 a rare "pre-War" Belgian poster. Prior to World War II, Belgian posters were much larger than the ones from after the war, and they are extremely rare (because during WWII, there was a massive paper shortage in Belgium, and they took virtually every poster and map, and printed new posters on the backs of them!). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had minor wear on the foldlines. It had a few scattered pinholes within the image. There was a small V-shaped tear in the right corner of the mouth of the girl at top right, and a jagged tear and small paper loss in the sky background just above Tracy's hair, with the tear extending down into his hair. There was a 2" x 3" area of paper loss in the right of the top blank border. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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