eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7p104 SWISS MISS Indian '50s great art of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, Hal Roach! Date Sold 5/26/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (possibly 1950s; see below) Vintage Theatrical Folded Indian Movie Poster (measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Swiss Miss, the 1938 John G. Blystone romantic Switzerland screwball comedy ("In a big, lavish, musical super feature"; "Original story by Jean Negulesco and Charles Rogers"; produced by Hal Roach; about two mouse trap salesmen who go broke in Switzerland, and they get jobs in a hotel, and get involved with a chambermaid who is actually a famous opera singer spying on her husband) starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (Laurel and Hardy), Della Lind, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Grete Natzler, Adia Kuznetzoff, and Charles Gemora (as the man in the gorilla suit, in a memorable sequence where Laurel and Hardy are trying to move a piano over a rope bridge). Note that Charles Gemora played gorillas in many movies, likely because he owned a gorilla suit, and could do a somewhat convincing job portraying a gorilla. Just a few years later, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan would also start playing gorillas, and no doubt they competed for roles in every movie requiring a gorilla! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that Indian posters are notoriously EXTREMELY difficult to date, because they continued to use outdated printing presses and paper that aged poorly, well into the 1970s, so many Indian posters look far older than they actually are. But THIS poster actually looks like it could be quite old. We have seen two other examples of it from dealers, and one describes it as being from 1938, and the other puts circa 1950, so we are going with the second choice, but we really don't know. PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THE UNCERTAINTY AS TO EXACTLY WHEN IT IS FROM, BECAUSE WE DO NOT GUARANTEE IT IS FROM 1950 OR EARLIER! The poster has really cool stone litho printing, but please bear the above in mind before bidding. Also note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. The poster has two evenly spaced vertical folds and two evenly spaced horizontal folds, with separation and tiny paper loss at one crossfold, and some minor wear around the edges. Learn More about condition grades
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