eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1a199 SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS trade ad '43 Kapralik art of sexy Lana Turner & Robert Young by keyhole! Date Sold 9/6/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Trade Ad (measures 9 1/2" x 12 1/2" [24 x 32 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Slightly Dangerous, the 1943 Wesley Ruggles romantic amnesia mistaken identity comedy ("What a figure she was behind a soda counter! But the satins and sables brought out the best in her!"; "Stop! Dangerous curves ahead! Cinderella came out from behind her soda counter. She'll look adorable in satins and sables."; "Stop! Watch out for curves!"; "'She was cute when mixing sodas in gingham uniforms--but she's gorgeous mixing highballs in silks and satins!'"; "Story by Ian McLellan Hunter and Aileen Hamilton"; a wacky story of Lana Turner as a soda jerk in a small town, and she leaves without telling anyone, and dyes her hair blonde, and everyone at home thinks she has been kidnapped, and then she gets hit on the head and gets amnesia, and the story gets more preposterous from there!) starring Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Dame May Whitty, Eugene Pallette, Alan Mowbray, and Ward Bond. Note that Lana Turner had been reportedly discovered sitting at a soda counter, and MGM was playfully making fun of that in this movie by having Turner starting out working behind a soda counter! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jacques Kapralik Important Added Info: Note that from the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks and exhibitor magazines, and they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. Sometimes those books and magazines are separated and the ads, which now greatly resemble the individually printed trade ads, are sold individually. The trade ad offered here was printed individually and sent to theaters as a promotion for this movie (it has the Kapralik art on the front and information about the movie and a photo from the movie on the back). It can be framed and displayed. Note that Jacques Kapralik was one of the two main caricature artists who worked for MGM from the 1930s to the 1950s (the other was of course Al Hirschfeld). His art was created in a most unusual way! He would create actual collages out of pieces of paper, and then they would be photographed (sometimes his collages were 3-dimensional!). His artwork is very distinctive and immediately recognizable. His caricature art promoted top MGM movies of the 1940s including: Silk Stockings, Designing Woman, Best Foot Forward, Presenting Lily Mars, and Two-Faced Woman, among many others! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades
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