eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8x190 OLD MAID linen Belgian 12x14 '45 different art of Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins & George Brent! Date Sold 12/8/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1945 (from the first release of this movie in Belgium) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Belgian Movie Poster (measures 11 1/2" x 14 1/4") (Learn More) The Old Maid, the 1939 Edmund Goulding family relationship romantic melodrama ("This, above All, Bette's Best!"; "Based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by Zoe Akins and the Novel by Edith Wharton"; a really wild story set during the Civil War of a pair of female cousins; one marries well, but her former fiance appears on the day of her wedding, and the her cousin comforts him; he goes off to the war, and he is killed, and it turns out he got the cousin pregnant, and she hides that from her town, raising the child in a home for orphans; when the girl grows up, she is taken in by her mother's rich cousin, and her real mother lives there too; the girl considers her mother's cousin to be her mother, and as she marries, her real mother wants to tell her the truth, but finally realizes that it would serve no purpose, and she keeps her secret to herself) starring Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, Louise Fazenda, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan, William Lundigan, Cecilia Loftus, and Marlene Burnett 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 poster was printed on the back of a piece of another poster! During World War II in Belgium, there was a massive paper shortage, and so they used whatever paper they could find to print the movie posters, and in many cases they used old maps or old posters, and printed the movie posters on the reverse. They often also made the posters smaller, so they could get more posters printed. This practice continued for a couple of years after World War II. Since these posters are original, and since all such posters are printed on the back of maps or other posters, this is not considered a defect by almost all collectors. Condition: good to very good. The poster was printed on the back of part of a poster . There is bleed through from the printing on the back in the light background areas. The poster had three horizontal folds and a 1" diagonal tear in the left of the middle fold. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see some bleed through in the light background areas and in the borders. Learn More about condition grades
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