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Auction History Result 1x001 CASABLANCA LC '42 close up Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman, they'll always have Paris! Date Sold 4/28/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise"), Helmut Dantine (as the young man playing roulette), and Joy Page (as Dantine's girlfriend, who is willing to sleep with Rains) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: fair to good. The card has pinholes, smudges, and small stains around the edges. There is what appears to be paint in the left of the top border. There is some surface paper loss in the middle of the left of the card. The right 4" of the card was folded back at one time and there is a light "wave" across the upper center of the card (it is not at all a crease). There are pinholes in the middle right of the card. There is a tiny blue stain at the bottom of Bogart's hair and some tiny brown stains in the background to the right of Bergman's hair. Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Obviously, this great card has many defects, but it is fortunate that the majority of them are in the borders or in solid colored areas. Certainly, a talented restorer could paperback this card, and after proper restoration, the card will look great, and there won't be much restoration needed within the image area. But please do not bid on this great card unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored! Learn More about condition grades 
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