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Auction History Result 2c106 CRADLE SONG German 37x56 1934 different art of nun Dorothea Wieck with man & woman, rare! Date Sold 12/12/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1934 (from the first release of this movie in Germany) Vintage Theatrical German Movie Poster (measures 37 1/4" x 56" [95 x 142 cm]) (Learn More) Cradle Song, the 1933 Mitchell Leisen romantic religious nun convent melodrama ("The new thrill of the screen"; "A new star to thrill ten million hearts!"; "When her eyes open... ten million hearts will thrill!!"; "To see her once is to remember her always!"; based on the Spanish play by Gregorio Martinez Sierra; about a group of nuns who raise an orphan girl, and when that girl grows up, she herself helps the nuns raise a baby; when that baby grows up, she wants to leave the convent, and the woman who spent her entire life there, who was her surrogate mother, reluctantly lets her go) starring Dorothea Wieck, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Louise Dresser, and Kent Taylor (in his fourth credited role!). Note that this was the only film version of what was a very popular and famous Spanish play, and Paramount apparently had huge hopes that Dorothea Wieck (a Swiss actress who had appeared in a bunch of German movies, including the lesbian cult classic "Madchen in Uniform") might be another Greta Garbo, but apparently the movie and Miss Wieck did not catch on with American audiences, and she appeared in one other American movie, and then returned to Germany where she made movies for many years. 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 never before auctioned this German poster! This is a very rare poster from Germany from before World War II. There are very few German movie posters from before World War II in existence (because of the massive paper shortages in Germany during World War II), and most of those few are in museums. Condition: good to very good. The poster is fragile and has tiny tears, separation, and tiny paper loss on parts of several folds, and some small tears and tiny paper loss in the borders. But after a simple linenbacking, this extremely rare poster will look incredible, and it will require very little paint restoration anywhere on the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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