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Auction History Result 2t380 MONSIEUR VERDOUX 24sh '47 cool stone litho art of Charlie Chaplin as gentleman Bluebeard! Date Sold 4/22/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Twenty-Four-Sheet Movie Poster (24sh; originally measured approximately 9' x 20' [23 x 51 cm]) (Learn More) Monsieur Verdoux, the classic 1947 Charlie Chaplin romantic marriage crime murder serial killer black comedy ("Chaplin Changes! Can You?"; "The Story of a Modern French Bluebeard"; "Hysterical Laughter! Haunting Romance! Shocking Drama!"; "The sensational New Comedy"; "In 'Monsieur Verdoux' there is a peculiar intensity of drama...an even more peculiar hysteria of laughter -and a strange love story that hurts."; "Beauty on the block!"; "What will be the fate of these lovely girls in the hands of the modern Bluebeard?"; about a man who repeatedly marries women and then kills them for their money; Chaplin manages to make this hysterically funny at times, and the movie really does make you think about why killing is acceptable in war, but is not in peacetime; as Chaplin says in the movie, "Numbers sanctify", asking why it is OK for a country to kill thousands during wartime; from an idea suggested by Orson Welles) starring Charles Chaplin (in the title role as Henri Verdoux), Martha Raye (who proves herself to be Chaplin's equal, as an indestructible wife who just refuses to be killed!), Isobel Elsom, Robert Lewis, and Marilyn Nash (billed as "introducing for the first time Marilyn Nash") 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 this twenty-four sheet was printed in 12 sections, but only 8 sections are present. We don't know what the missing four sections contained, but they ran across the bottom of the poster, and likely contained the small credits and a lot of blank white paper. If anyone has a reference copy of this poster, please e-mail it to us and we will post more information here. . Condition: fair. Note that this twenty-four sheet was printed in 12 sections, but only 8 sections are present. We don't know what the missing four sections contained, but they ran across the bottom of the poster, and likely contained the small credits and a lot of blank white paper. IT IS VERY FORTUNATE THAT THE ENTIRE TITLE, IMAGE, CHAPLIN'S CREDIT, AND TAGLINES ARE COMPLETE, AND THE POSTER WOULD DISPLAY GREAT JUST AS IT IS, BUT PLEASE DO NOT BID ON IT UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT ITS VERY SIGNIFICANT DEFECT OF HAVING FOUR MISSING SECTIONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM! The 8 sections of the poster that are present are somewhat water stained and there are many tears and tiny areas of paper loss in the borders and along the foldlines. Learn More about condition grades 
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