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Auction History Result 4d0189 DARK VICTORY WC 1939 great close up of Academy Award winner Bette Davis, ultra rare! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Dark Victory, the classic 1939 Edmund Goulding romantic love triangle medical doctor high society melodrama ("Twice Academy Award winner now brings to the screen her greatest role!"; "From the play by George Emerson Brewer, Jr. and Bertram Bloch"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a rich young socialite who spends her time with her prize horses, but when she discovers she has a brain tumor, she goes to a top surgeon who operates on her and removes the tumor, and they fall in love; she realizes the cancer is terminal, and she leaves him, but Humphrey Bogart is her horse trainer who gets her to tell him why she's been acting unruly, and she ends up returning to the doctor to marry him and live out her remaining days!) starring Bette Davis (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon. Note that this was the last time Bette Davis would co-star with Humphrey Bogart, after having appeared together in a number of Warner Bros. movies between 1931 and 1937. The movie is rightfully considered one of the greatest melodrama "tearjerkers" of all time! Finally, note that most of the first release posters for this movie billed Bette Davis as "Academy Award Winner" (with an image of an Oscar statuette next to that). This does NOT mean that this is a re-release poster advertising that Miss Davis won the Academy Award for this movie (in fact, while she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, she did not win). Rather, it refers to the fact that Bette Davis had previously won an Academy Award (for "Jezebel") and the studio was proud of that fact and advertised it on the poster! 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 we have only once before auctioned this 1939 first release window card, and that card has now been reconsigned to us, so it is still the only example of this window card we have ever auctioned! We have auctioned first release posters of many different sizes on this classic movie, so it seems unusual that this window card would be so scarce, but it definitely is (the example we are auctioning here was purchased by a collector decades ago, and he has held it ever since, until now)! Also note that this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: very good. The window card was never folded. The card was once framed, and it has slightly darkened in the area that was exposed. It had pieces of clear tape on the back where it was held to the mat. It had stains in the top and bottom blank areas, with just a few tiny scuffs in the image area. It had tiny tears and creases in the top right of Davis' hair. Since the defects are primarily in the blank borders, which will not show when the poster is framed, we still feel it warrants a "very good" condition grade. Of course, one could choose to have restoration performed, but either way, the new owner will have an incredibly rare and really cool window card to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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