ARE YOU LOOKING TO BUY MOVIE POSTERS OR RELATED ITEMS? We are the world's leading auctioneer of movie posters and related items. You are currently on one of our non-auction pages. We hold 4,000 to 5,000 auctions every FOUR WEEKS. To learn more about our auctions, click here. To register to bid on our auctions, click here.

About eMoviePoster.com:

In the past 32 years, we have auctioned MORE movie paper for MORE money than ANY other auction company, period!

EVERY item we auction starts at $1, with NO reserve, and NO buyers premium, and EVERY item is honestly described, with an unenhanced super-sized image!

We charge consignors the lowest rates of ANY major auction, and we have held over 1,834,000 online auctions!

Go to our current auctions in our Auction Galleries, and you will quickly see why we are the most trusted auction site!

eMoviePoster.com was founded in 1999 as the first all-movie poster auction website. We have auctioned well over 1.8 MILLION posters (movie and NON-movie), lobby cards, stills and related items through our auctions since 1999, surely the most of any online auction!

eMoviePoster.com

eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!

What are the objects in the corners of some images? Learn More

Login or Register to see large images.
Auction History Result

2m063 DR. GILLESPIE'S NEW ASSISTANT TC 1942 Lionel Barrymore & sexy Susan Peters, includes bag!

Date Sold 12/29/2019
Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price.


An Original Vintage Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More)

Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant, the 1942 Willis Goldbeck medical doctor hospital mystery thriller ("All new! Baffling!"; "The case of the runaway bride!"; "From the stage play by Leon Gordon"; "Based on a novel by Ida Vera Simonton"; the movie concerns Dr. Gillespie having to pick a new assistant to replace the departing young Dr. Kildare, and he holds a contest between three competent young doctors; yet the posters for this movie center on the sexy "runaway bride", who stars in an unrelated fairly minor subplot!) starring Lionel Barrymore (in the title role as Dr. Gillespie), Van Johnson (in his third credited movie role!), Richard Quine, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger, Nat Pendleton, Stephen McNally (billed as "Horace McNally"), and Susan Peters (one of the most tragic, yet oddly forgotten, stories of Hollywood female stars who rise and fall in a short time; she was one of MGM's most promising young female stars in 1943, and she married co-star Richard Quine, but in 1945, she was wounded in a hunting accident, and she became paralyzed from the waist down; she appeared in a movie and a TV show as a wheelchair-bound actress, without much success, and she divorced and starved herself to death, dying in 1952 at the age of 31). Note that the Dr. Kildare movies were made between 1938 and 1947. Lew Ayres was forced to leave in 1942 (more on that below), and six more films were made WITHOUT Dr. Kildare, but WITH Dr. Gillespie (played as always by Lionel Barrymore), who became top billed in those six movies, and of course, they could not be official "Dr. Kildare movies", because the lead character was no longer at the hospital. Also, note that Lew Ayres had declared himself a conscientious objector to World War II (WWII), and he was blacklisted in Hollywood as a result. He went on to change his status to 'non-combatant', serving as a medic in the South Pacific, as well as a chaplain's aid in New Guinea and the Philippines.
NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography.
Important Added Info: Note that this auction also includes the printed envelope this lobby card originally came with! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has.

Condition: good to very good. There are some brown stains in the upper right of the image, with surface paper loss in the lower left blank border and a pinhole in each corner.
Learn More about condition grades

Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware
Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems
Also, please read the following two pages of Consignor Reviews - Page 1, Page 2, and two pages of Customer Reviews of our company - Page 1, Page 2, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others!


LAMP Approved - Founding Sponsor since 2001 - eMoviePoster
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. 
(For our UPS or FedEx address, click here)
phone: +1 417 256-9616     fax: +1 417 257-6948
E-mail: Contact Us
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT)