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Auction History Result 2y046 THIS ISLAND EARTH laminated insert '55 they challenged unearthly furies of a planet gone mad! Date Sold 11/6/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Laminated Insert Movie Poster (measures 14" x 36" [36 x 91 cm]) (Learn More) This Island Earth, the 1955 Joseph M. Newman science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("The supreme excitement of our time!"; "2 1/2 years in the making! ...to bring you sights of Fantastic Amazement never before possible on the motion picture screen!"; "Trapped amid the mysteries of outer space they challenged the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; "In out-of-this-world color by Technicolor"; "The mortal's World is left behind!"; "Earthlings prepared for Outer Space!"; "Kidnapped in midair by giant Space Ship!"; "Pursued by the deadly rays of destruction"; "Crashing the blazing thermal barrier"; "Two mortals trapped in outer space... challenging the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; based on the novel by Raymond F. Jones) starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, and Russell Johnson. Note that some advertising material refers to the title as "This Island, Earth", while others (including the one-sheet) have "This Island Earth". Note that the wonderful alien creature costumes in this movie were created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in Creature From the Black Lagoon, but the head of the makeup department on that movie did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal around a year later. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in this movie, "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably be her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to Creature From the Black Lagoon, this movie, and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Reynold Brown Important Added Info: Note that this poster has been laminated! It is quite likely that there is no way to reverse this process. However, I have seen many posters and lobby cards that have been laminated for over 20 years, and the lamination does not hurt the items in any way (and some of the posters were laminated as much as 40 years ago, so it certainly seems that if it were going to damage the item, it would have happened by now!), plus it seems to completely protect them, while allowing them to be easily displayed with no fear of damage. HOWEVER, PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU WANT TO PURCHASE A LAMINATED ITEM! Condition: good to very good. Note that this poster has been laminated! PLEASE DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU WANT TO PURCHASE A LAMINATED INSERT! Prior to being laminated, the poster had been folded in the usual way. There were some faint water stains scattered in the top and bottom of the left blank border, slightly extending into the brown background at the top left of the poster. There were several tiny pinholes in each corner. No restoration was performed, and the poster was then laminated, and it likely looks exactly as it did at that time, which was over 30 years ago! Learn More about condition grades 
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