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Auction History Result 7w0591 MIGHTY BARNUM 1sh 1934 cool circus art of Wallace Beery as the legendary showman, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/19/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Paperbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Mighty Barnum, the 1934 Walter Lang circus carnival biography ("Here's the big show! The heart story of a master showman... his trials and aches... his triumphs and glories."; based on the play by Gene Fowler & Bess Meredyth; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; a highly fictionalized re-telling of the story of the great circus showman, P.T. Barnum, who is reported to have said "There's a sucker born every minute", but he may have appropriated it from a competitor!; near the end of his life, he merged his circus with the Bailey Circus, to for the legendary Barnum & Bailey Circus, which carried on for 146 years until closing in 2017) starring Wallace Beery (in the title role as P.T. Barnum), Adolphe Menjou (as Bailey Walsh), Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson, Janet Beecher, George Brasno (as General Tom Thumb), Olive Brasno (as Lavinia Thumb), R.E. 'Tex' Madsen (as the Cardiff Giant), and May Boley (as the Bearded Lady) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned an example of this poster before! Note that this movie was released by 20th Century Pictures just before it merged with Fox in 1935, and because 20th Century Pictures was small, the movie was distributed by United Artists! Note that this poster was backed on to a fairly heavy paperbacking. The poster can still be rolled, but it will need to be sent in a 6" tube, so bear this in mind before bidding. What IS paperbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had some pinholes around the edges and some small tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the folds. Someone backed the poster on to a somewhat heavy paperbacking with no excess and performed very slight restoration, but mostly left the poster as is. Learn More about condition grades 
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