Selling Classic Movie Posters to Famous Men and women

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by: MichaelFreiling86
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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 Time: 11:45 AM

Selling and gathering classic motion picture posters is my pastime, it brings me into contact with many different men and women from different continents. I have offered to collectors and enthusiasts from Canada, USA, Brazil, Peru, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and nearly all of Europe. Among the most effective items that transpires soon after selling a poster will be the replies from the customer. We have been fortunate sufficient and contemplate it an honor to sell posters to well-known men and women and their family. Right here is just 1 story of these moments.

I bought a lovely selection of posters dated from 1950-1960 from a neighborhood auction place. Soon after sorting through them I decided to put some up on Ebay for sale. One this sort of poster was from the movie referred to as She Played with Fire, a 1957 film starring Jack Hawkins and Arlene Dahl. The movie was also known in the United kingdom as 'Fortune can be a Woman'.

For people not acquainted with her films she also starred in Journey to your Centre with the Earth. So I woke up a single early morning and checked Ebay and discovered that somebody had bought this poster, after going through the typical form of a sale, emailing them a delivery date after which shipping the poster off, it had been only once i acquired feedback that I discovered the username from the consumer in link with the poster. I then determine to electronic mail the client to consult if there was any connection with Arlene Dahl. Not really expecting a reply again I acquired an e-mail some days afterwards... saying it absolutely was Ms Dahls secretary buying the poster on behalf of Arlene Dahl!. I emailed back again stating it had been a privilege to supply her a poster and wondered why she hadn't got a poster of this film. Perhaps it truly is because once the movie market have completed earning money outside of you they truly don't treatment, I don't know. Right after some corresponding emails the ultimate a single I acquired was that Ms Dahl was extremely delighted with the poster and to pass on her gratitude.

It really is tales like these that bring a smile to my deal with, someone like Arlene Dahl who produced thousands of individuals smile with her movies within the late 1940s until finally the early 1960s, displaying appreciation to your film poster vendor throughout the sea.

Arlene Dahl give up the film organization in 1957 to become an elegance columnist and author then in afterwards decades a businesswoman founding Arlene Dahl Enterprises marketing cosmetics.