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Auction History Result 3m0253 VOLTAIRE 1sh 1933 colorful art of George Arliss, sexy Doris Kenyon & Margaret Lindsay, rare! Date Sold 2/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Voltaire (also released as "The Affairs of Voltaire"), the 1933 John G. Adolfi France historical author literature biography melodrama ("The Greatest Actor of Today" [plays] "The Greatest Man of His Time"; "The affairs of history's strangest personality."; "A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture"; set in the days before the French Revolution; famous French author Voltaire has fallen out of favor with King Louis XV because he has criticized the court's excesses; a woman whose father was unfairly executed comes to him and asks him to help her regain her father's estate and restore his good name, and Voltaire writes a play that tells the story of her father in an allegory, and it is performed for the King, and it causes him to see the error of his ways, and he restores the young lady's estate!) starring George Arliss (in the title role as Voltaire), Doris Kenyon (as Madame Pompadour, the king's mistress), Margaret Lindsay, Theodore Newton, Alan Mowbray, and Reginald Owen (as Louis XV) 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 previously auctioned this one-sheet twice, but they were the same poster being auctioned and re-auctioned, so we have only auctioned one other example of this poster! Also, note that this poster was one of the posters found in the legendary Royal Theatre Collection, in Canada over 40 years ago. This was the most amazing find of 1930s and 1940s posters ever, because not only were most in remarkable condition (most with paper that was as white as when it was printed), but also because it contained many of the best titles of those years, and there were many thousands of posters and lobby cards in all. Despite these having been sold over 40 years ago, many of these posters have rarely again been offered for sale or at auction. The poster offered here was purchased from the Royal Theatre Collection!
UPDATED 02/17/2020: Note that we have updated the Important Added Info section. Condition: very good. The poster has a tiny tear and tiny paper loss 1" above the middle crossfold, with a tiny tear and a pinhole in the lower left and a pinhole in each corner. There are a few smudges in the bottom right. Otherwise, the poster is in really nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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