eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3h805 SORROWFUL JONES 1sh '49 wacky art of Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, funnier than the Paleface! Date Sold 10/22/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, the 1949 Sidney Lanfield horse racing sports gambling comedy ("Foreward narrated by Walter Winchell"; "Funnier than 'The Paleface'!"; "Adapted from a story by Damon Runyon") starring Bob Hope (in the title role as Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones), Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Thomas Gomez, and Mary Jane Saunders (billed as "Introducing Mary Jane Saunders"). Note that this movie was based on a Damon Runyon short story called "Markie", about a little girl who is given as a "marker" on a gambling debt, and there had previously been a 1934 version of this movie called "Little Miss Marker" starring Shirley Temple, and that it was remade twice again after this version, in 1962 as "40 Pounds of Trouble" and 1980 as "Little Miss Marker"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fair to good. There is rippling and some staining and smudging throughout the poster from exposure to moisture. There are tears and areas of paper loss in the corners of the poster (repaired with tape from the back in the lower right corner). The top 3" of the poster was folded back at one time. There is separation at the crossfolds and there are tack holes around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades
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