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Auction History Result #579 HELLZAPOPPIN' 1/2sh R40s Olsen & Johnson Date Sold 8/27/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. R40s Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Hellzapoppin', the 1941 H.C. Potter romantic movie-making screwball comedy ("At last it's on the screen..!"; "You'll Laugh!"; "You'll Howl!"; "You'll Roar!"; "Based on an original story by Nat Perrin"; "Suggested by the stage play 'Olsen & Johnson's Hellzapoppin'") starring Olsen and Johnson (Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson), Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Mischa Auer, Jane Frazee, Robert Paige, 30 Congeroos (the movie introduced a new dance, "The Congeroo", a "new Harlem dance craze, a combination of the Conga and the Lindy-Hop"), and Shemp Howard. Note that this screwball comedy was sort of a 1941 version of "Airplane", with every possible gag thrown in. We have not seen the movie, but we know there was a sequence that included the Frankenstein monster (played by Dale Van Sickel). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good. There are light green smudges over the left of the title, extending down into the faces of the people below the title. There are many tears in the left border including one long one that extends into the neck of the man at left. There are light w. Note that this poster has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (once horizontally and once vertically) right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970! Learn More about condition grades 
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