eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7f407 PENNY SERENADE map back Belgian 11x14 '40s super close up of Cary Grant & pretty Irene Dunne! Date Sold 3/7/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1940s; from the first Belgian release) Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) George Stevens' Penny Serenade, the 1941 George Stevens troubled marriage romantic melodrama ("The rapture and ecstasy of love at first sight...the heart-strings music of a first 'I Love You'..."; "Remember the tune they were singing...the night we fell in love?"; "This 'Penny Serenade' is the kind of music a man plays on a woman's heart-strings..."; "The kind of love story you've always wanted for these grand stars!"; "Based on the McCall's Magazine novel by Martha Cheavens"; about a woman about to leave her husband, and she reflects on all the good times in their marriage and what caused the problems) starring Irene Dunne (after Grant and Dunne's credit it says, "Excitingly Together Again", or "Excitingly Reunited" one some other posters, referencing "My Favorite Wife", which they had made together the year before), Cary Grant (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, and Eva Lee Kuney 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! Note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]. Also note that this poster was folded across the middle at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good to very good. The poster originally had a blank top that was neatly trimmed off (this is commonly done with Belgian posters, similar to how the blank top is trimmed off of U.S. window cards). There are some creases scattered throughout the poster from it being oddly folded at one time and there is a there is a tax stamp in the lower right edge. Learn More about condition grades
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