eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #7758 OLD MAN & THE SEA diecut standee58Tracy Date Sold 4/29/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Cardboard Movie Standee (measures 32 1/4" x 58 1/4") (Learn More) Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, the 1958 John Sturges seafaring ocean fishing adventure melodrama ("This was the 85th day he went out... this was the day all Hell and Heaven and Hemingway would break loose..."; "Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-Winning Story") starring Spencer Tracy (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as the Old Man), Felipe Pazos (11 year-old Cuban boy, making his screen debut; this was his only movie!), Harry Bellaver, Don Diamond, Don Blackman, and Mary Hemingway (who at the time was Ernest Hemingway's wife!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that while studios made standees for a high percentage of major Hollywood productions, very few are known to survive from pre-1970 movies. This week on eBay we are offering a group of many never-seen standees from pre-1970 movies. While some are in lesser condition, one must accept them as they are, due to their extreme rarity! Most could be displayed and enjoyed just as they are, or of course a talented restorer could make them look wonderful! Condition: good. areas of paper loss, surface paper loss, creases, and smudges around the edges of the standee; smudges throughout the standee (most noticeable in the yellow background areas and in the white background at top center; additional horizontal crease 3" below the original center crease; The original standee string attachments on the back of the standee are no longer there (although you can see two circles and a string where they were attached) Learn More about condition grades
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