poster on linen BALL OF FIRE 1941 British Door Panel 19x59 LINENBACKED Rare/HTF

Description: Original 1941 WWII era theater film poster on Linen Backing, sent to film theaters in GREAT BRITAIN for marketing purposes. GOOD+ to VERY GOOD condition. A restored poster with bright color and clean appearance. Nicely backed, displays well with an age-appropriate look and natural edge and fold wear. Fans and collectors of Cooper and Stanwyck will appreciate the scarcity of this British advertisement. This door panel boasts an impressive full-length image of Cooper, with Stanwyck looking over his shoulder. There was minor edge wear and a tear on the right side. Due to wartime paper shortages, this door panel reused another partial poster which shows slightly through. Linen is one to two inches outside paper border. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. 1941. Directed by HOWARD HAWKS, co-Scripted by BILLY WILDER. TAGLINES : "Riotous but tender comedy of a professor so anxious to learn the slang pf a hep-cat queen that she puts his heart in a sling!" "You'll love Gary too...and roar with laughter as your eyes mist up...when this staid word-hunting Prof finds some new ones and loses his heart to slang slinging, hip swinging Sugarpuss, hot-spot Queen of Hepcats!" - A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. Sexy, wisecracking nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea is a hot tomato who needs to be kept on ice: mobster boyfriend Joe Lilac is suspected of murder and Sugarpuss' testimony could put him away. Naive Professor Bertram Potts meets Miss O'Shea while researching an article on slang and in true romantic comedy fashion the two worlds collide. When Miss O'Shea hides out with Potts and his fellow professors, everyone learns something new: the professors how to cha-cha and Potts the meaning of "yum-yum"! FOUR Academy Award OSCAR Nominations including Best Actress (Barbara Stanwyck), Best Original Story / Writing and Best Music Score Drama. CAST includes Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, S. Z. Sakall, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Charles Lane, Elisha Cook Jr, Ralph Peters, Kathleen Howard, Tully Marshall, Richard Haydn, Leonid Kinskey, Aubrey Mather.BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : Kathleen Howard was left with a fractured jaw when the punch that Barbara Stanwyck threw accidentally made contact. Stanwyck was reportedly mortified by the incident. When Gary Cooper is taking notes of the newsboy's slang, the marquee on the theater across the street advertises Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), an inside joke that refers to the script's inspiration. Lucille Ball wanted to play Katherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea, as she thought it was the kind of role that would win her an Oscar. She fought for the role and was eventually hired, but once producer Samuel Goldwyn found out that Barbara Stanwyck was available he gave her the part instead. Howard Hawks recalled that for the scene in which Bertram reveals his feelings about Sugarpuss in the darkened bungalow, cinematographer Gregg Toland coated Barbara Stanwyck's face with black grease paint so that her eyes would stand out. To pick up authentic slang for the film script, screenwriters Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett visited the drugstore across the street from Hollywood High School, a burlesque house and the Hollywood Park racetrack. The roles of the seven professors (besides Gary Cooper) were inspired by Disney's Seven Dwarfs. There is even a photograph showing the actors sitting in front of a Disney poster, each one in front of his corresponding dwarf: S.Z. Sakall - Dopey; Leonid Kinskey - Sneezy; Richard Haydn - Bashful; Henry Travers - Sleepy; Aubrey Mather - Happy; Tully Marshall - Grumpy, and Oscar Homolka - Doc. Dana Andrews based his character of Joe Lilac--Sugarpuss O'Shea's boyfriend--on notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel. Siegel owned the Formosa, a club across the street from Goldwyn Studios, and Andrews used to go there after work. He had the suits, the hats, right down to the spats, down pat.

Price: 841.72 USD

Location: Wake Forest, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-12-14T18:54:42.000Z

Shipping Cost: 39.95 USD