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Auction History Result 5k248 WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM special 27x40 '62 Reynold Brown book art, rare Cinerama! Date Sold 12/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Special Movie Poster (measures 27" x 40 1/4" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, the 1962 Henry Levin & George Pal ("Fairy Tales directed by George Pal") fairy tale musical fantasy ("Share the true-life adventures of two famous story-telling brothers... and see their fabulous stories actually come to life!"; "'Wonderful' ...is the word for it!"; "Wonderful songs! Wonderful dances! Wonderful color!"; "In wonderful color!"; "Wonderful romances, dances, adventures! Stars, songs, story!"; "Based on 'Die Bruder Grimm' by Dr. Hermann Gerstner"; "Screen Story by David P. Harmon") starring Laurence Harvey (in the title role as Wilhelm Grimm), Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Bohm (in the title role as Jacob Grimm), Walter Slezak, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Eden, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, Jim Backus, Beulah Bondi, Terry-Thomas, and Buddy Hackett. Note that this movie opened to a very limited number of theaters in Cinerama, and after its initial engagement, it played in many theaters NOT in Cinerama. Very, very few items survive from the initial Cinerama release. None of them are regular sized posters, surely because the Cinerama theaters that it premiered at made their own posters! 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 there have always been two incredibly elusive titles for collectors of Cinerama posters from Cinerama movies. One is "How the West Was Won", and there are a few posters that are POSSIBLY from the 1962 U.S. Cinerama release (but there is doubt about them), and the other is this title, "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm", and, as far as I know, no one has ever seen a single original U.S. Cinerama poster from this movie! But in 2007, we were consigned FOUR posters, that were from the U.S. Cinerama release of this movie! I had never heard of or seen those posters before, in the five years since, I have never seen another poster from the U.S. Cinerama release of this movie, until we were consigned additional posters from the same consignor (which are identical to the four posters we auctioned in 2007), and we are auctioning the three final ones we have in this set of auctions (and our consignor now has no more of these, so this is the last opportunity to purchase these incredibly rare posters)! IMPORTANT: This poster is certainly unusual in that it has the Cinerama logo printed down the right side in an odd way. We think it is likely that this was done so that theaters that were not showing the movie in Cinerama could trim that part away and dispose of it, while theaters that were showing it in Cinerama could place that logo wherever they wanted it! Condition: good to very good. There are light brown stains across the bottom of the poster at lower right. There are minor creases scattered throughout the poster but they are not very noticeable or distracting. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and if one chose to have it restored, the stains could surely be removed through chemical means, after which the poster will look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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