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Auction History Result 9p0064 AT THE CIRCUS herald 1939 wonderful artwork of the Marx Brothers by Al Hirschfeld, rare! Date Sold 8/31/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 11" x 15 3/4" [28 x 40 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) At the Circus, the 1939 Edward Buzzell musical screwball comedy ("Keep the world laughing!") starring The Marx Brothers (Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, and Harpo Marx), Kenny Baker, Florence Rice, Eve Arden, Margaret Dumont, Nat Pendleton, and Charles Gemora (as Gibraltar the gorilla). Note that this was the movie where the Marx Brothers sing the song "Lydia the Tattooed Lady"! Also note that MGM initially was going to call this movie "A Day at the Circus" (to capitalize on the success of "A Day at the Races"), but that title was dropped (although it is on a few stills). There was a working title of "Marx Bros At the Circus" that is also on some stills, but not the 1939 posters or lobby cards. To make things confusing, when MGM re-released the movie in 1962, the advertising made it look like the title of the movie was "Marx Bros At the Circus". NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that we previously auctioned three examples of this herald, but only one in the last 8 years! This is one of an excellent collection of 27 rare heralds from the late 1930s and early 1940s which was recently discovered. Many of them are ones we have either never auctioned before or only auctioned once or twice. The heralds were all printed in the U.S., but were mostly used in theaters in Egypt, so most have overprinting on the back for an Egyptian movie theater. Also, almost all of the heralds have either tiny circular holes scattered in the image (sometimes very few, sometimes more), and some of them have larger paper loss somewhere in the image. We strongly suggest you look closely at our images of the fronts and backs of these rare heralds before bidding on them, so you can see the location of the tiny circular holes or larger paper loss. Condition: fair to good. There are around sixteen tiny circular holes scattered in the herald, and the herald is entirely separated along the fold across the middle. See above for more about the condition of this herald and please look at our super-sized images of both sides before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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