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Auction History Result 9g004 SUSPICION linen French 1p '46 Hitchcock, Bernard Lancy art of Cary Grant & Joan Fontaine! Date Sold 6/9/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1946 (from the first release of this movie in France) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 3/4" x 60 1/2" [116 x 154 cm]) (Learn More) Suspicion, the 1941 Alfred Hitchcock crime film noir mystery thriller ("Each time they kissed... There was the thrill of love... The threat of murder!"; "She won your heart in 'Rebecca'! He drew your cheers in 'Philadelphia Story'. Thrill to them together in a suspense-romance directed by the man who did 'Rebecca'"; "Screen play by Samson Raphaelson, Joan Harrison, Alma Reville [Hitchcock's wife]"; "Based on the novel 'Before the Fact' by Francis Iles"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Lumsden Hare, Vernon Downing, and Auriol Lee. Note that there is controversy about the ending of this movie! Many people say that Hitchcock intended the movie to end with Grant killing Fontaine, and that the studio insisted that he change it (to preserve Grant's positive public image), but others say that this is an urban legend, and that the movie was always intended to end the way it did! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Bernard Lancy Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had paper loss at several crossfolds and tears and small areas of paper loss scattered on parts of some foldlines (with a lot of tears in the middle left of the poster in Grant's chin, with some paper loss to the left of that area). There were also some tears that were not along the foldlines. There were some pinholes and tears around the edges of the poster. The entire poster had darkened somewhat. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone had the poster backed onto linen with no excess, and they had wooden dowels attached to the edges, with a wire attached to the top of the top dowel, and they displayed the poster in that way, without framing it. The poster was stored rolled for many years and it was roughly handled, causing the poster to have some horizontal creases. Obviously, one would prefer to find a better condition example of this really cool poster with great Lancy art (or one with less restoration), but we have never seen any other examples of this poster. It might be many years (if ever) before another example is offered for sale! Learn More about condition grades 
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