eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1m103 DAY AT THE RACES trade ad '37 Birnbaum art of the Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico & Harpo! Date Sold 10/9/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Movie Trade Ad (measures 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" [23 x 31 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) A Day at the Races, the classic 1937 Sam Wood horse racing sports gambling screwball comedy ("The year's big laugh, music and girl show!") starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx), Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont, Esther Muir, Douglass Dumbrille, Sig Ruman, Leonard Ceeley, and Dorothy Dandridge (in an uncredited early role, in a sequence where a large number of young black African American men and women sing with Harpo). Note that this movie includes the classic comedy sequence where Groucho tries to buy a horse racing tip from Chico's Tootsie-Frootsie ice cream cart! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Abe Birnbaum Important Added Info: Note that this really cool trade ad has completely different art of the Marx Bros. by "Birnbaum". We have never seen this art before, and the only other poster art by Birnbaum (whose name was Abe Birnbaum) was on a "Diabolique" poster from 1955, but we know that he did a lot of covers for The New Yorker magazine. Also note that this ad has images on both sides, both for this movie (see our images)! 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 ad offered here was removed from a yearbook or magazine. It 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!). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades
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