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Auction History Result 1c381 ON THE WATERFRONT LC '54 Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando & Eva Marie Saint running in alley! Date Sold 5/3/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) On the Waterfront, the classic 1954 Elia Kazan (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) crime union corruption dockworker romantic family relationship melodrama ("The truly great picture of the year!"; "A story as warm and moving as Going My Way... but with brass knuckles!"; "Add to the few... the very few... truly memorable screen performances! Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in 'On the waterfront'... one of the few... the very few... truly great motion pictures!"; "Screenplay by Budd Schulberg"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; since both Schulberg and Kazan "named names" and co-operated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, some consider this movie a defense of informers; I consider it one of the finest movies ever made!) starring Marlon Brando (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Karl Malden (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Lee J. Cobb (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Rod Steiger (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Pat Henning, Eva Marie Saint (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; billed as "Introducing Eva Marie Saint"), John F. Hamilton (as 'Pop' Doyle), and Thomas Handley (as Tommy Collins, the boy who helps with the pigeons; in the movie, he kills the pigeons after Brando's character testifies, which was especially ironic, because young Handley's father was a longshoreman who was killed for opposing union corruption, and he was hired to feed the pigeons on the set, but then Kazan gave him a screen test and he won the role of Tommy; even more interesting, he never made another movie, but he grew up to be a longshoreman himself, and in 2002 was elected recording secretary of his union after the leadership was ousted for corruption!). Note that this one of only three movies (the other two being The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II!) that have ever had 3 different actors nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this card has been graded and authenticated by mpgrading.com. This means that a white label has been "encrypted with a unique 9-digit serial number with invisible DNA-laced ink" and has been attached to the back of the bottom left corner of the card, and there is also a separate Certificate of Authenticity which has the same label on it. On that certificate, the card ha been given a grade of "very good (5.5)", but of course, that grading scale is not the same as ours, and on ours, we grade this card as "good" (see below). Condition: good. The card had a 2" tear in the right of the top border and a 1 1/2" tear and a 1" tear in the right border. There were some smaller tears in the left border and a 2" tear in the left border that extended into Brando's eye, causing scuffing and tiny paper loss in that area. There were pinholes in the corners and paper loss in the top corners due to rough removal of the pins. Some somewhat amateur restorer repaired the tears and sort of replaced the paper loss in the top border with tape from the back, and they performed slight touch up to Brando's eye at middle left. Learn More about condition grades 
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