eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3a023 MIGHTY McGURK trade ad '46 great artwork of boxing Wallace Beery & Dean Stockwell! Date Sold 8/12/2012Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Trade-Ad (measures 9 1/4" x 12 1/4" [23 x 31 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) The Mighty McGurk, the 1946 John Waters boxing sports family relationship comedy ("Wallace Beery ...and the Boy Star of 'The Green Years' in a heart stirring entertainment"; "Original screen play by William R. Lipman, Grant Garrett, and Harry Clorn"; about a washed up former alcoholic boxing champ who tries to help an orphan find his family; it seems that Beery loved playing this part!) starring Wallace Beery (in the title role as Roy 'Slag' McGurk), Dean Stockwell, Edward Arnold, Aline McMahon, and Dorothy Patrick NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the art on this looks like it COULD be Al Hirschfeld, but it is not clearly him, and we never put his name on anything that is not 100% by him. If anyone knows for sure who drew this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. 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 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 to fine. Learn More about condition grades
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