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Auction History Result 9b022 LA VEUVE JOYEUSE pre-war Belgian '40s Lubitsch, MacDonald, Chevalier, French Merry Widow Date Sold 8/9/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Belgian Movie Poster (measures 24" x 33" [61 x 84 cm]) (Learn More) La veuve joyeuse, the French language version of The Merry Widow, the 1935 Ernst Lubitsch French romantic musical comedy (written by Samson Raphaelson; based on book and lyrics by Victor Leon & Leo Stein and music by Franz Lehar, from his 1905 operetta; about a mythical tiny country in Europe, and their richest citizen, a widow, goes to Paris, and the king of the country is afraid she will never come back, so he sends the country's greatest lover to try to marry her and keep her in their country!) starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Marcell Vallee, Daniele Parola, Andre Berley, Fifi D'Orsay, and Pauline Garon. Major studios in the very early 1930s tried an experiment where they filmed alternate language versions of their major movies, sometimes with entirely different casts, and sometimes with one or more of the same leads (especially if they spoke that alternate language fluently, but if they were essential to the movie, like Laurel and Hardy, they would say their lines phonetically). But in this case, MGM had the same two top stars from the English language version (obviously, Chevalier could speak French, and we don't know about MacDonald), and the rest of the cast was entirely different in each version. So this is essentially the exact same movie as the 1935 MGM movie "The Merry Widow", except that the cast is different, except for the two stars. 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!). Note also that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: good. There is discoloration scattered in some areas of the poster from exposure to moisture. There are some pinholes around the edges. Some of them are torn or enlarged due to rough removal. Please see our super-sized image to get a good sense of the condition of this item prior to placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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