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Auction History Result 6p0662 DU BARRY WAS A LADY 2 trade ads 1943 pin-up art of Lucille Ball by Shermund & Howard Baer! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Group of 2 Original Vintage Movie Trade Ads (each measures 9" x 11 1/4" [23 x 29 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Du Barry Was a Lady, the 1943 Roy Del Ruth romantic love triangle musical comedy ("The musical extravaganza in Technicolor that tops 'Great Ziegfeld' glory!"; loosely based on a Cole Porter Broadway musical, but it had to be heavily censored to be made into a movie; about a coatroom attendant who dreams he is back in 18th century France, chasing after the showgirl he loves in real life!) starring Red Skelton (as King Louis XV), Lucille Ball (in the title role as Madame Du Barry), Gene Kelly, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Virginia O'Brien, 'Rags' Ragland, Zero Mostel (in his first movie role!), and Don Wilson. Note that this movie paired the greatest male and female TV slapstick comedians, Red Skelton and Lucille Ball! Note that there is a sequence in this movie with the "I Love a Vargas Girl" musical number with Red Skelton. MGM had famed pin-up artist Alberto Vargas pick out twelve beautiful models to each be a "month" in the above number, and Clarence Sinclair Bull photographed them against calendar backgrounds for each month. One of those twelve models was Hazel Brooks, who went on to a successful film career, but not as much for the other eleven! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Shermund & Howard Baer Important Added Info: From the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks and exhibitor magazines, and they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. Sometimes those books and magazines are separated and the ads, which now greatly resemble the individually printed trade ads, are sold individually. The trade ads offered here were printed individually. They can be framed and displayed (but many trade ads have different images on each side, so one must choose which side to display if it is framed!). Note that these trade ads have been trimmed and they now measure 9" x 11 1/4" [23 x 29 cm]. Also note that we have pictured the front and back of each trade ad. Condition: good to very good. The trade ads weer neatly trimmed to 9" x 11 1/4" (likely to fit a frame), but it did not affect the great artwork on the front. Learn More about condition grades 
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