eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1y757 VOLTAIRE 1/2sh 1933 George Arliss & sexy Doris Kenyon in low-cut dress & jewels, ultra-rare! Date Sold 12/3/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 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 this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Note also that this poster has never been machine folded! Condition: fair to good. The poster was never folded. It has much light staining across the bottom 5" and some around the rest of the poster with a little bit scattered in the rest of the image. It also has paper loss in the top blank corners and a few around the edges. Obviously this incredibly rare poster could be restored, but bear in mind all of the above before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades
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