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#2697 GONE WITH THE WIND linen Belgian #1 R54

Date Sold 1/27/2004
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An Undated (likely from the second release of this movie in Belgium in 1954) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Scarlett Style Belgian Movie Poster (measures 23 1/2" x 31 1/4") (Learn More)

Gone with the Wind, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Civil War era romantic melodrama epic ("The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made!"; "In the New Screen splendor... The most magnificent picture ever!"; "David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South"; "Screen play by Sidney Howard"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Clark Gable (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "as Rhett Butler"), Vivien Leigh (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "and presenting Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara"), Leslie Howard ("as Ashley Wilkes"), Olivia de Havilland (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; "as Melanie"), Hattie McDaniel ("as Mammy"), Thomas Mitchell ("as Gerald O'Hara"), Butterfly McQueen (as Prissy), Ann Rutherford ("as Carreen O'Hara"), George Reeves (in his first credited movie role!), Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson ("as Belle Watling"), Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport ("as Dr. Meade"), Carroll Nye ("as Frank Kennedy"), Laura Hope Crews ("as Aunt Pittypat"), Alicia Rhett ("as India Wilkes"), Barbara O'Neil ("as Ellen O'Hara"), and Marcella Martin (as Cathleen Calvert)
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Artist: M. Demil
Important Added Info: Note that this classic movie was first released in Belgium in 1940, and the Germans invaded France and Belgium right around the same time, in May of that year. The posters were printed with the "Metro Goldwyn Mayer" logo at bottom right, and it is known that some goodly number of the posters were overprinted with solid black over the logo (some long time collectors say it was because MGM was owned partially by Jewish people, and that distributor name would have offended the Nazis). There are a very few examples of this poster without the studio name overprinted, and it seems likely those were posters that were never used, so they did not need to be overprinted. Most collectors accept this overprinting as "part of the poster", and not a defect, since almost all examples of this poster have this same overprinting. Another knowledgeable collector has suggested to us that he believes that the posters without the overprinting actually date from 1949 (which was when the movie first played in Belgium), and that they simply used the plates designed for an intended release in 1940, which may or may not have occurred. He further states that he believes that the overprinted posters are actually from 1954, at which time the same plates were used, but the MGM was overprinted because MGM was no longer the distributor of the movie in Belgium (and because they added a Loews credit, and that was added in the U.S. for the 1954 re-release). Certainly, there is much uncertainty about this poster as to exactly when it is from and what is the meaning of the overprinting, and we urge anyone with any additional knowledge about either matter to contact us, so we can post it here. Based on the above, our best guess is that (because this poster does have the overprinted logo at bottom right) it dates from 1954 and is from the second Belgian release.

Condition: fine. The poster has been linenbacked . Prior to restoration, the poster was in fine condition. The poster had only the most minor of fold and border wear and a single pinhole in each corner. Note that the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer credit in the lower right corner is overprinted with black. This was done on most of the known examples of this poster (for unknown reasons).
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