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This sale encompasses Hollywood, sports, and music memorabilia; as well as toys, games, comics, and pop culture collectibles. Highlights include a Walt Disney letter from a newly discovered trove of material belonging to actor Chester Morris; a pair of cast and crew mugs gifted by John Wayne; an original Charles Addams cartoon published in The New Yorker; and a complete Harlem Globetrotters player-issued uniform.
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Lot 209

The Bad and The Beautiful. Hollywood: MGM Studios, 1953.

Estimate: $150 - $300
Starting Bid
$80

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The Bad and The Beautiful. Hollywood: MGM Studios, 1953. One-sheet poster featuring co-stars Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner embracing. Sight approximately 41 x 27". Framed under plexiglass. Frame size approximately 45 x 31". 

 

Gloria Grahame gave one of the shortest performances in film history to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. This successful melodrama concerns Johnathan Shields (Douglas), a ruthless and ambitious film producer who will stop at nothing to rise to the top.

Condition

Folded. 1 vertical and 3 horizontal creases, a few visible marginal short tears or chips, some color correction to folds, poster is possibly mounted. B-. Not examined out of frame.

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