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SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK WC, regular OR search current auctions Auction History Result 6k478 SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK WC R50 Preston Sturges, Harold Lloyd & lion, Mad Wednesday! Date Sold 3/11/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1950 Re-Release (re-titled "Mad Wednesday" for this re-release) Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 16" [36 x 41 cm]) (Learn More) The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (also released as "Mad Wednesday"), the 1947 Preston Sturges romantic football fantasy comedy (produced by Howard Hughes; "Yes sir! Wednesday was WILD! Wednesday was RUGGED!"; "Funniest picture that has been made... In this year or any other!"; "Written and directed by The One And Only Preston Sturges who gave you 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek', 'The Great McGinty' and other smash hits!"; "The wildest, wackiest most hilarious and completely bollixed-up day you ever heard of!"; Lloyd plays the exact same character he played in "The Freshman", except he is 20 years older, and he dreams of romance, and then, after he drinks a "Diddlebock" at the local bar, he goes on a very strange rampage) starring Harold Lloyd (in the title role as Harold Diddlebock), Jimmy Conlin, Raymond Walburn, Arline Judge, Franklin Pangborn, Lionel Stander, Rudy Vallee, Margaret Hamilton, Edgar Kennedy, and Frances Ramsden (billed as "introducing Frances Ramsden"). Note that this film has a strange history! It was first released in 1947 as The Sin of Harold Diddlebock but reviews were mixed and it had a limited release. The film was pulled from theaters and the title was changed to Mad Wednesday (possibly as a result of a contest created by Howard Hughes for his employees) because of concerns that the word "sin" in the title would hurt the box office. Advertising material was created for the planned 1947 run of Mad Wednesday and new footage was shot to be used to re-edit the film (supposedly, all of Rudy Vallee's scenes were cut because Howard Hughes disliked Vallee!). However, likely because Hughes took so long on the re-editing process, it would not be until 1950 that the movie was theatrically released as Mad Wednesday. 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 this window card has been trimmed and it now measures 14" x 16" [36 x 41 cm]. Also note that this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: good. The blank top was trimmed off. It was folded down the middle and there is paper loss in the bottom left blank corner. There is tape on the back of the middle of the poster in the bottom border. Learn More about condition grades 
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