eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #8025 KENTUCKY KERNELS Aust db '34 W&W Date Sold 5/6/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (measures approximately 15" x 40") (Learn More) Kentucky Kernels, the 1934 George Stevens inheritance American South feuding families orphan adoption screwball comedy ("When the bullets start to fly, suh... You'' Just Die, Suh!"; about a pair of men who both inherit a bunch of money and become custodian to an orphan boy, and they get in the midst of a huge family feud) starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey (Wheeler & Woolsey), Mary Carlisle, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Noah Beery Sr., and Willie Best. Note that director George Stevens had gotten his start in the late 1920s, and throughout the early 1930s, he directed around 20 comedy shorts for RKO. In 1933, he was finally given the chance to direct a feature, and he was soon regularly directing feature-length comedies (this was his third), but he would really come into his own in the 1940s, and by the 1950s, he was one of the very top Hollywood directors! 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: This poster was folded originally. But it has been laying completely flat for many many years, and we strongly advise letting us send it in a tube, rather than folding it! Condition: good. there is paper loss in the top left and lower right corners; there were several long tears and creases in the bottom few inches of the poster and someone put tape on the back of them; there are tears, creases, small areas of paper loss, and smudges around the edges of the poster; there are many horizontal creases throughout the poster. Note that this was one of a group of 24 daybills from the 1920s and 1930s that were found together. All have significant condition defects, but many are quite attractive and some may well be the only (or one of a few) surviving examples! But please read the condition descriptions closely and do not bid on any of these 24 posters unless you can accept their defects or are willing to have them restored! Learn More about condition grades
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