eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3g0254 OUR TOWN 8 LCs 1940 Martha Scott & Holden are married, Thornton Wilder, rare complete set! Date Sold 2/6/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Our Town, the 1940 Sam Wood ("Goodbye Mr. Chips") romantic melodrama ("Their love affair was the talk of our town!"; "Blows lid off small town"; "From the heart of America! A great motion picture"; "Local drug store owner reveals village secrets"; "Story of laughs and heartaches behind trim white shutters told by man who knows"; "Confesses... A boy and his dad know things about each other that nobody else knows. Things that often make a father-and-son relationship the most baffling question in their lives. But should George tell his father everything?"; "I Don't Want To Get Married... I'm Afraid! I never felt so alone in my whole life. Why can't I go along as I am... for a little while longer?"; "Talks... Mr. Morgan, storekeeper, relates a drama-packed story of the life, the loves, the tragedies and happiness of 'Our Town'. His expose shatter traditional concepts of small-town life"; "Talks Too Much she just adored weddings. But she adored gossip even more... no matter whom it hurt."; "Wouldn't Talk Simon Stimson... the choir-master and the town drunk. But it wasn't drink that killed him."; "It's everybody's story... it's America's story... it's YOUR story!"; "The screen's most unusual picture"; "A famous Pulitzer Prize play becomes a motion picture masterpiece"; "from the classic Pulitzer Prize Play by Thornton Wilder"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring William Holden, Martha Scott (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee, Stuart Erwin, and Frank Craven NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare complete set of lobby cards for this movie (we have only auctioned one complete set of cards for this title in all of our years of auctioning and that was in 1997!) Condition: good to very good. The title card has some small tears at left and right and someone backed those with conservation tape and then attempted amateur restoration. The card pictured at lower right in our second image has been used as a sign on back and it has some slight discoloration at right in the blank border. The other cards are in "very good" condition though, and have no tape whatsoever on the front or back, and they never have had any restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades
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