1945 ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTO SONG TO REMEMBER Still Rare Merle Oberon

Description: I have for sale a 1945 ORIGINAL VINTAGE PHOTO SONG TO REMEMBER Still Rare Merle Oberon. This Photo is Fine as it is glossy.......This comes from the famed collection of the Lester Glassner Estate. This is an extremely rare vintage photo that I have not seen for sale anywhere. Photo measures 8x10. Please check out my other Vintage Hollywood Photos listings all coming from Lester Glassner Estate. Google Lester Glassner and see his vast collection he once had. Please see all pictures and please ask all questions before purchase. Thanks, and Good Luck!!! A Song to Remember, the 1945 Charles Vidor classical music biographical melodrama ("As long as all the world loves a lover... this romance will live!"; "A new kind of motion picture! A new miracle of Technicolor!"; "A glorious new form of entertainment in TECHNICOLOR!"; "As long as dreamers dream... as long as lovers love... Their story will be remembered!"; "Shocking? Scandalous? Shameful?"; "All-embracing! All-consuming! All-powerful!"; about composer Frederic Chopin) starring Paul Muni, Merle Oberon (as George Sand), Cornel Wilde (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Frederic Chopin), Nina Foch, George Coulouris, Stephen Bekassy (as Franz Lizst), George Macready, and Gregory Gaye. Note that this movie as originally set to be directed by Frank Capra after he completed Lost Horizon with Francis Lederer as Chopin, Paul Muni as Elsner and Marlene Dietrich as George Sand (Capra had first tried to borrow Spencer Tracy and Greta Garbo from MGM, but they refused). But production delays on Lost Horizon forced Capra to abandon the project, and it sat dead for eight years, until Columbia Pictures revived the project in 1944 with Charles Vidor directing and while Paul Muni still starred as Elsner, Merle Oberon and Cornel Wilde were hired for the other leads. Capra sued for breach of contract in 1946 but the lawsuit was eventually was settled out of court. Interestingly, director Vidor, who perhaps was unhappy with this movie, finally started to film it in 1960 as "Song Without End", but he died of a heart attack during filming and was replaced by George Cukor, so that was his final movie. Finally, note that Paul Muni always had a contract that required he be top billed, so he was top billed here, even though he is clearly not the star of the movie! In addition, Columbia was surely afraid of how this movie would do at the box office (biographies of composers do not usually do well), and so they created an ad campaign built around a "jury" of stars proclaiming that "A Song to Remember is the most thrillingly different picture we've ever seen... a glorious new standard in picture entertainment", and that jury consisted of a VERY eclectic group, including Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Fritz Kreisler, Irene Dunne, James Montgomery Flagg, Ginger Rogers, Benny Goodman, Edward G. Robinson, Al Jolson, Bob Ripley (of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not"), and Abbott & Costello, and the movie received a very large and elaborate pressbook! SHIPPING/POST-SALE: All of our photos come packed in clear sleeves with backing boards to insure archival protection. GRADING: We use comic book grading standards, as defined by Overstreet and Comic Guarantee Corp., for grading all of our paper collectibles. These strict standards are well-developed and widely accepted. The various grades we use are generally applied as follows:Near Mint - item is bright and clean, virtually defect-free and appears "like new"... image is sharp... any defects would be barely perceptible and only visible upon close inspection.Very Fine / Near Mint - at first glance appears near mint but upon close inspection very minor degradation or one or two very small defects become apparent.Very Fine - generally clean and bright and still high grade and desirable but may have a few small defects (e.g., minor corner crease, light bend, subtle image degradation, etc.).Fine - average grade... nice collectible item but defects are more noticeable and apparent.. may have some soiling or image issues.Very Good - lower grade... wear and tear is readily apparent... item is still complete though.Good - low grade... heavy defects... could be a piece missing from a corner or a major tear.Fair or poor - the lowest grades... we generally only offer items in this condition if they are hard to find.

Price: 30 USD

Location: Alpharetta, Georgia

End Time: 2024-09-30T21:35:01.000Z

Shipping Cost: 7.25 USD