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Well it's ended now, mostly while I was asleep. Casablanca I thought would've been the highest, but Most Dangerous Game deserves it given how rare it is.
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A couple of good options there. I might use to get some one sheets for The Sheik (or perhaps not!).
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They are indeed rare. I know of surviving ones for The Big Parade and It and some other Paramount ones from the 20s but I've never been able to get the owner of them to loosen their grip.
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Daybills had fallen to quite a low standard by the late 50s, especially with RKO no longer on the scene.
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I bought one years ago at one of the Bill Collins Christies auctions.
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The finest ever! - that's a big claim. I don't know about that but it's in your top 10 for sure.
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That rare 1 sheet came from a large collection unearthed in Tasmania in the early 2000s.
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I don't, for one.
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My poster database tells me I had a Be Your Age daybill. A photo eludes me at present, I remember it had a red background.
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Given that the blank space isn't anywhere near big enough to accomodate the title, and Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter weren't Martin and Lewis for example, this is an easy one.
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I assume the ACH without a fee is only for those whose home currency is $US.
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Interesting finding though personally I can't think of any of these distributors where large numbers of titles have been found that favour one more than another. Certainly individual titles such as the aforementioned Rancho Notorious occur in bulk.<…
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Columbia followed by Warner Brothers.
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Dutch cinemas also used British and American posters, so obviously a variety from English speaking countries.
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A U.S. 1 sheet - from Jerusalem apparently.
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Hard to think of many places unless they were used in some of our neighbours to the north. In contrast where else were U.S. posters used? Because they were obviously used in Australia and also the Middle East - I have one from Palestine dating from …
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I would describe the bare bit as an artistic error rather than a printing error. The crowd scene probably should've merged with the border.
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I'd say that is the J. Caesar 53 1 sheet. The instant I saw it I was reminded of orher MGM 1 sheets such as Young Bess, Scaramouche and All the Brothers Were Valiant, that had that mixture of colour and black and white art. No doubt there were orher…
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A Wynne Davies long daybill. An early Loretta Young movie, and pictured (sort of) on the poster.
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I had the blue background Come Up Smiling daybill many moons ago, it was poorer than the above image, with the blank top roughly torn off.
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There are collectors out there with other rare ones, I've seen some of these posters in person, unfortunately not all collectors want to advertise their 'holdings' publicly.
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Reading the auction description of the Public Enemy window card, it states that the image of it should've been used on the one sheet. It actually was though, there were 2 one sheets and this image dominates one of them. In fact when you Google the m…
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It's interesting how many U.S. posters (and often multiple copies too) have turned up from the teens and twenties compared to the very low number from the 30s.
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Since the hair colour has now changed (and the goal posts) the depiction in the poster resembles Sylvia Koscina. If it's anyone more obscure than her, good luck!
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1950s - ok then, my more confident guess is Mylene Demongeot.
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With that hair style it looks 1960s, a decade which had hordes of beauties to choose from. My guess Virna Lisi.
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It is impressive, I regret parting with that!
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Yes, Ben Hur is a horizontal daybill. Ir was the biggest publicised movie to that time in cinema history, so expect extra special advertising. I don't think a press sheet exists but I figure there would have been multiple daybill designs.
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The unknown size thing is an ad from a magazine, great art though.
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I would say that more than rarity, genre, decorative appeal etc, that the most important factor by far is what you actually paid or gave for the item.
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