eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6s008 ELLERY QUEEN linen 30x40 1940s Ralph Bellamy with pretty Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter! Date Sold 6/9/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Thirty by Forty Poster (30x40; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Ellery Queen, the 1940 stock 30x40 poster ("The ace amateur sleuth of radio and fiction now on the screen!") for a series of seven movies based on the classic character created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who together wrote under the pseudonym Ellery Queen) starring Ralph Bellamy (in the title role as Ellery Queen), and Margaret Lindsay (as Nikki Porter). Theaters would order this poster, which had a large blank square in the bottom right. They would be sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, and they could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Note that this classic series of novels first came to the screen in 1935, as a Monogram movie, called "The Spanish Cape Mystery", starring Donald Cook in the lead role. They followed it with a sequel the next year, replacing Cook with Eddie Quillan. Neither movie did that well at the box office, and Monogram dropped the series. Columbia bought the rights in 1940, when they made "Ellery Queen, Master Detective", with Ralph Bellamy taking over in the lead role, and six more movies were made the next two years, and then the series stopped again. A TV series "The Adventures of Ellery Queen", began in 1950 with Richard Hart in the lead role. The next season he was replaced by Lee Bowman, who lasted three years and then was replaced by Hugh Marlowe, who played the character for five years, and then the series ended. After a two year gap, "The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen" aired on TV starring George Nader for one season, and then Lee Philips for another season. The character was not revived until 1975, when Jim Hutton played the lead role in the TV series "Ellery Queen", but it only lasted one season. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. Someone at the theater that used this poster wrote in "ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MON-TUES" in the blank rectangular area. There was also writing on the back of the right of the top border that bled through to the front in between the taglines at top right. The poster also had creases, tears, and paper loss along parts of most of the folds. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. Someone backed the poster and did minimal restoration to the above defects, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades
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