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Auction History Result k127 RUBE GOLDBERG portrait 8x10 movie still '26 with cartoon! Date Sold 8/23/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" Movie Still (Learn More) Rube Goldberg (Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg) was a cartoonist from 1910 to the 1970s, most famous for his drawings of complex machines that perform simple tasks in convoluted ways (today, he is mostly only remembered for the above, which appeared in a cartoon strip called "The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts", which ran from 1914 to 1964). He started out in 1907 as a sports cartoonist, and he soon switched to political cartoons, and he became extremely successful (but his cartoons angered so many people, that he had his sons change their last names to avoid association with him). In 1915, he started his comic cartoon strips, and drew a number of them, including Mike and Ike (They Look Alike), Boob McNutt, Foolish Questions, What Are You Kicking About, Telephonies, Lala Palooza, and The Weekly Meeting of the Tuesday Women's Club. In 1930, he wrote a movie that featured his wacky machines, and it was called Soup to Nuts, but it is namely remembered today for starring "Ted Healy and His Stooges", which was the very first film version of The Three Stooges! Goldberg passed away in 1970 at the age of 87. Important Added Info: Note that there is a paper snipe glued on the back of the still that describes the scene on the front (it does not affect the front of the still). It describes how Goldberg had just signed a contract with Stern Brothers to have his comic strip, "Mike and Ike - They Look Alike", adapted into a series of two-reel comedies the following year (and in fact, over two dozen of these two-reelers were made, beginning in 1927). Note that the still includes a facsimile signature by Rube Goldberg, with a printed drawing of "Mike and Ike" by Goldberg. Condition: very good. There are faint emulsion scuffs scattered throughout the still, but they are truthfully not very noticeable except when the still is tilted to the light. Learn More about condition grades 
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