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Auction History Result 3j0389 TRUCKLINE CAFE stage play 8.25x10 still 1946 Marlon Brando & Ann Shepard on Broadway, rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 8 1/4" x 10" [21 x 25 cm] Stage Play Still (Learn More) Truckline Cafe, the 1946 Harold Clurman Broadway stage play production (of the work by Maxwell Anderson; produced by Elia Kazan; about two young couples who have very unhappy marriages for very different reasons, and they are all together in a cafe where one of the wives works) starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, David Manners, Kevin McCarthy, and Virginia Gilmore. Note that this short-lived play (which either ran for 10 performances or 13 performances, depending on where you look) was Brando's first major appearance on Broadway, after some smaller parts in other plays. On the surface, this seems like the kind of play that "could not miss". It had a wonderful writer, a wonderful producer and director, an electric new star, and some other young future successful actors, and one veteran, David Manners. But it DID miss completely! Critics hated it, which is why it closed so quickly. But many people believe that it was this play that caused producer Elia Kazan (working with Marlon Brando for the first time) to realize how he was and to cast him in the lead in his production of A Streetcar Named Desire the following year. And many, many people claim to have seen Brando live in this play, and yet with so few performances and such terrible reviews, one suspects that many of them are guilty of wishful thinking! And of course, because this play opened and closed so quickly, the playbills from it are extremely rare, and any other sort of advertising for it is beyond rare! Important Added Info: As noted above, any sort of paper from this brief production of this play is beyond rare. We believe that this stage play still is surely when the play quickly opened and closed in 1946. It has stamps on the back from "Movie Life". We have never auctioned anything from this before we were consigned this wonderful stage play still! Condition: very good to fine. There are a few minor creases and tiny scuffs around the edges, but the still is otherwise in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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