eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5d303 THREE PENNY OPERA 17 8x10 stills '63 Curt Jurgens, sexy Hildegard Knef & showgirl dancers! Date Sold 1/12/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 17 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) Die Dreigroschenoper (released in the U.S. as "Three Penny Opera"), the 1963 Wolfgang Staudte French/German musical melodrama ("It's the sassiest, brassiest entertainment that ever flipped its skirts at you!!!"; "NOW all the marvelous mischief and merriment of 'The World's Most Popular Stage Musical' bubbles wickedly to the screen!"; "Three Penny Opera ...is priceless entertainment!"; "The longest run musical ever to brighten the stage lights up the screen with new excitement"; "By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill"; "English lyrics by Eric Bentley") starring Curd Jurgens (as Macheath, Mack the Knife), Hildegard Knef (billed as "Hildegarde Neff"), June Ritchie, Gert Froebe, Lino Ventura, and Sammy Davis Jr. ("as the Streetsinger"). Note that Bertolt Brecht was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet from the 1920s to 1956. He was the main proponent of the genre named epic theater. During the Nazi period and World War II he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia and then in the United States. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Some of his works include: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and Mother Courage and Her Children NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: SUPER IMPORTANT! THOUGH ONLY EIGHT OF THE STILLS ARE PICTURED, THE HIGH BIDDER ON THIS LOT WILL RECEIVE 17 STILLS FROM THIS MOVIE (but realize that on some of these lots with 9 or more stills there may be a few duplicates, mostly on post-1960 lots)! We realize there is an element of gambling to this, but we made only a small effort to find the best stills in these lots, and, if you have any willingness to gamble at all, you may find that you get some great stills that were not pictured! Please do NOT bid on this lot unless you can accept that you are only seeing eight of the stills. Condition: good to very good. Each still has a censor stamp in a corner, and a pair of staple holes in each corner but otherwise they are in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades
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