eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1h0851 BAREFOOT CONTESSA linen Belgian 1954 different artwork of Humphrey Bogart & sexy Ava Gardner! Date Sold 12/26/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 14" x 23 3/4" [36 x 60 cm]) (Learn More) The Barefoot Contessa, the 1954 Joseph L. Mankiewicz Italian/U.S. romantic melodrama ("'The World's most beautiful animal!'"; also written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz; told in flashbacks, it starts with the funeral of a glamorous movie star, and men in her life recall their interactions with her) starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Marius Goring, Valentina Cortesa, Rossano Brazzi, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Bessie Love, and Riccardo Rioli. Note that this movie has a similar structure to that of Citizen Kane, which was written by screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz's older brother, Herman J. Mankiewicz! 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 this is a very unusual Belgian poster! It measures approximately the same size as most Belgian posters of this time (this one measures 14 1/4" x 23 1/2" [36 x 60 cm]), but almost every Belgian poster from this time or before has a large blank area at the top (like U.S. window cards, for play date information and theater names). But this poster has no large blank area, and instead has a small even border on all four sides. More interestingly, we have seen a "regular" Belgian poster from this title, which does have the top blank area and a completely different image! Because the two posters have the exact same information on them, we believe both are from the 1954 first release, and we think that this poster was just created with no top blank area so that it could have a very long full image of Ava Gardner! If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had multiple horizontal folds, with some creases and scuffs along those folds, and some smudegs and scuffs around the edges, with a few tiny stains scattered in the image. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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