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Auction History Result 4d0325 THIS ISLAND EARTH 8 LCs 1955 rare full set with all the incredible special effects scenes! Date Sold 5/3/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 8 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 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 we have only auctioned two complete sets of lobby cards for this movie in all of our years of auctioning! Note also that card #3 is unnumbered, but the other seven cards are numbered, so we know that it is the #3 card (the three is likely in the bottom right corner of the image and blends in to the background so that it can't be seen). Condition: very good. The title card has some faint smudges around the edges and there is a small tear in the bottom blank border and some pinholes in the upper center blank border and both those borders have some tape on the back of the defects. Each of the scene cards have a tiny pair of staple holes in the upper center blank border and some light creases in portions of the edges. Card #8 has a smudges at upper left and there is a piece of brown tape on back of the right center with the movie's name written on it. Card #3 (see above) has some smudges at left and tiny brown dot stains on back at right but they are not very noticeable on front. Card #5 has a few faint scuff marks in some of the images of space at right. The cards are otherwise in pretty nice condition and they have no other tape whatsoever on the front or back, and they never have had any restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades 
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