eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3a008 BATHING BEAUTY/CANTERVILLE GHOST trade ad '44 cool art of Leo the Lion & sexy harem girls! 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]; 4 pages) (Learn More) the 1944 double-bill release of Bathing Beauty, the 1944 George Sidney romantic aquatic swimming musical comedy ("M-G-M's mammoth Technicolor musical spectacle!") starring Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Basil Rathbone, Bill Goodwin, Ethel Smith, Jean Porter, Carlos Ramirez, Harry James & His Music Makers, Helen Forrest, Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra, and Lina Romay AND The Canterville Ghost, the 1944 Jules Dassin World War II (WWII) England horror fantasy comedy ("MGM's comedy!"; "It Puts You In The Best Of Spirits!"; "Based on 'The Canterville Ghost' by Oscar Wilde"; about some U.S. soldiers that are stationed in an English castle during World War II, and the castle is haunted by the ghost of a cowardly English lord from the 1600s, and he won't be able to rest until a descendant performs an act of bravery, and one of the soldiers is descended from him) starring Charles Laughton (in the title role), Robert Young, Margaret O'Brien ("Star of 'Lost Angel'"), William Gargan, Reginald Owen, "Rags" Ragland (former boxer and burlesque comedian who went to Hollywood in 1942 at the age of 37, and who appeared in a couple of dozen MGM movies until his death four years later), Mike Mazurki, and Una O'Connor. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. 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 ad offered here was printed individually (it comes to us from the daughter of a studio executive, whose father took them home as samples). 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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