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Auction History Result 3m0143 FREAKS 3sh R1949 Tod Browning classic, story of the love life of the sideshow, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1949 Re-Release Theatrical Folded Three-Sheet Movie Poster (3sh; measures 41" x 81" [104 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) Freaks, the classic 1932 Tod Browning circus romantic love triangle horror fantasy thriller ("Do Siamese Twins make love? What sex is the half-man, half-woman? Can the Pinheads think? Can a full-grown woman truly love a midget?"; "Freaks makes these strange creatures as human as you!"; "An unusual love drama"; with actual circus sideshow human oddities!) starring Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova (as Cleopatra, who turns into the Chicken Woman at the end of the movie!), Roscoe Ates, Henry Victor (as Hercules), Harry Earles (as Hans), Daisy Earles (as Frieda), Rose Dione, Daisy Hilton & Violet Hilton (the Siamese Twins), Schlitze (as himself), Josephine Joseph (as the Half Woman/Half Man), Johnny Eck (as the Half Boy), Frances O'Connor (as an Armless Girl), Peter Robinson (as the Human Skeleton), Olga Roderick (as the Bearded Lady), Koo Koo (the "Bird Girl", as herself), Prince Randian (billed as "Rardion"; as The Living Torso), Martha Morris (as an Armless Girl), Elvira Snow (as a Pinhead), Jenny Lee Snow (as a Pinhead), Elizabeth Green (as a Bird Girl), Angelo Rossitto (one of the most successful "little people" actors from the 1920s on), Edward Brophy, Matt McHugh, and John Aasen (as the Giant). Note that in an extremely odd movie, it was even odder that brother and sister Harry and Daisy Earles played boyfriend and girlfriend! 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: Note that we have only previously auctioned a different example of this 1949 re-release three-sheet, and that was 9 years ago, when it sold for $1,925! Also note that this movie was intended to be MGM's answer to Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein, and they hired director Tod Browning, thinking he could not miss, but this movie proved disastrous at the box office, and MGM quickly withdrew it from circulation. Master promoter Dwain Esper purchased the rights from MGM, and after releasing it under some alternate titles, he launched this full scale re-release in 1949! Finally, note that this three-sheet was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap. Condition: very good. There is tiny separation at several crossfolds and tiny bits of paper loss and tiny tears at two crossfolds, as seen in our image. Otherwise, the poster is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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