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Auction History Result 8b305 SUMMER STORM horizontal Italian 1p 1947 Tarquini art of super sexy Linda Darnell, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/24/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1947 (from the first release of this movie in Italy) Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian One-Panel (known in Italy as a "2 Fogli") Movie Poster (1p; measures 39" x 55" [99 x 140 cm]) (Learn More) Anton Chekhov's Summer Storm, the 1944 Douglas Sirk pre-revolution Russia romantic love triangle melodrama ("She was an invitation to murder"; "Don't Go Near This Woman!"; "She Devil! So beautiful and so wicked!"; based on the novel 'The Shooting Party' by Anton Chekhov; about an upper class Russian man engaged to marry a woman of "his own class", but he falls for a beautiful peasant girl, and he destroys his life over her) starring George Sanders ("the Thunder"), Linda Darnell ("the Lightning"), Anna Lee, Hugo Haas, Lori Lehmer, Edward Everett Horton, John Abbott, Sig Ruman, John Phillber, and Robert Greig. Note that this movie bears marked similarities to G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box", but the Chekhov novel was written in 1884, and "Pandora's Box" comes from a different source. Also note that director Douglas Sirk (born "Detlef Sierck") had left Nazi Germany in 1941, after having made several German movies, and then he directed "Hitler's Madman" in 1943, which led to this movie the following year, and of course, in the 1950s, he gained a great following for his romantic melodramas! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Paolo Tarquini Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this Italian poster (and the only other Italian item from this movie we have auctioned is a single lobby card)! It is remarkable that this poster has survived, even though it is in much lesser condition! Note that this is an extremely rare Italian poster from right after World War II! Virtually no Italian posters survive from during or right after World War II (mostly only some heavy stock lobby cards, and even those are rare). Apparently there were many paper shortages in Italy during World War II, resulting in the destruction of almost all posters from before World War II, and also from during the war, and the first few years afterwards! Condition: poor to fair. The poster is very fragile and has separation, tears, and some paper loss on parts of many folds and in the borders. The poster is in urgent need of expert professional restoration. But the poster is mostly "all there", and after linenbacking by a talented professional, the poster will look fantastic, and it won't require a lot of paint restoration within the image. However, please do not bid on this poster unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored. Of course, one could much prefer to find a better condition example of this poster, but there is an excellent chance that another example does not exist, and if it does, it might be in the same or even lesser condition. I feel certain the new owner of this poster will have it restored, and I would love to see an image of it afterwards, and even more, I hope they publicly display it, so that lots of people can see it! Learn More about condition grades 
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