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Auction History Result 6v010 DICK VAN DYKE 12 8x10 stills '60s-90s many youthful portraits plus one from Diagnosis Murder! Date Sold 10/28/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 12 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" Movie Stills (Learn More) Dick Van Dyke was born in tiny West Plains, Missouri in 1925 (his parents were just passing through). West Plains is also where Bruce Hershenson has lived the past 26 years! He started as a stand-up comic, and he briefly had a popular act where he would do silly lip-syching to popular songs (with wacky props). When he found success, he passed that act on to his younger less successful brother Jerry, who stuck with those routines for decades. He won a Tony Award for his stage role in Bye, Bye Birdie in 1960, and was chosen the next year to star in The Dick Van Dyke show, surely one of the best TV series of all time. While the show was on the air, he found time to recreate his part from Bye, Bye Birdie in the movie version of that part, and to co-star in What a Way to Go, The Art of Love, and in Mary Poppins, where he fully held his own opposite Julie Andrews. It seemed there was nothing this superbly talented actor could not do, but he was a major alcoholic, and that illness and his subsequent quitting drinking would greatly drag on his output for many years. He 'retired' many times, but always returned to either movies or TV. In 1993 this ultra-likeable actor returned to TV as Dr. Mark Sloan in Diagnosis Murder, which was basically Matlock but in the world of medicine. He is still making a few movie and TV appearances, and some great YouTube videos. As of 2022, he is still alive at the age of 95! Important Added Info: Note that this is a special lot of "portrait" stills that were consigned to us by an individual who collected portraits of stars he liked over many decades! Each of the lots contain a number of ORIGINAL stills of a well known celebrity (there are 40 lots in all, and each is in its own auction), and the star is prominently pictured in ALL of the stills in that lot! Each of the lots contain a wide variety of stills of that particular star, covering different movies they made, and from different points in their career. Please note: many of these stills are in SUCH excellent condition that a person viewing them might well wonder if they are reproductions, but we assure you they are not! They were purchased decades ago (in many cases, when the movies came out), and they were in "brand new" condition at that time, and have been carefully stored ever since, so that explains why the condition is SO fine (and it also means this is a really rare opportunity to acquire multiple ORIGINAL portraits of a single star (there are NO repros in any of the lots)! Condition: very good to fine. The still from Diagnosis: Murder is a TV still that measures 7 1/4" x 9 1/4". One of the movie stills measures the same, but it has not been trimmed. The full-length portrait in suit and tie is printed on Kodak stock, but it is a TV still and it is surely original. Learn More about condition grades 
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