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Auction History Result 6b239 WIZARD OF OZ LC 1939 Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr & Haley by Frank Morgan in balloon! Date Sold 5/1/2018 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) The Wizard of Oz, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming family magical fantasy adventure musical ("MGM's miracle musical show of shows!"; "It's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor triumph!"; "Magnificent in its brilliant Technicolor splendor!"; "At Last It's Here Biggest Sensation Since "Snow White"!"; "The mighty miracle show that is the talk of America!"; "Amazing sights to see! The Tornado, Munchkinland, Horse of a Different Color, Startling Balloon Ascent, The Flying Monkeys, The Tree That Throws Apples"; "Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!"; based on the classic book of the same name by L. Frank Baum; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Judy Garland (as Dorothy), Frank Morgan (in the title role as The Wizard of Oz!), Ray Bolger (as The Scarecrow), Bert Lahr (as The Cowardly Lion), Jack Haley (as The Tin Man), Billie Burke (as Glinda, the Good Witch), Margaret Hamilton (as the Wicked Witch), Charley Grapewin, "The Munchkins", and Toto too! Note that MGM was worried about how well this movie would do at the box office, and they did something we don't remember seeing on any other major movie advertising! One of the taglines says "Biggest sensation since Snow White", which means MGM was advertising a Walt Disney movie, but that shows just how worried they were! Of course, they needn't have worried, because this was a timeless classic that has only improved with age. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that original 1939 Wizard of Oz lobby cards were printed with a red color in the border background area and in the bottom studio credit that fades extremely easily. A high percentage of the cards that exist have either a pink color in those areas, and other cards have orange in those areas. This card has the red that the card was originally printed with, which is a big plus (over our many years of auctioning, we have auctioned several other examples of this card, and this has the brightest red of any of those)! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good. The card had pinholes in the top border and two near the bottom center. It had a tear in the top left blank corner that detached that corner from the card. It had two small tears in the right border and a 2" thin sliver of paper loss in the right edge of the right blank border (opposite the bottom of the image), with slightly larger paper loss at the bottom of that sliver, but still all in the blank border. It had a few other very tiny tears and tiny bits of paper loss in the blank borders. The image area of the card was in really nice condition, and, as noted above, the red is not at all faded. A restorer performed restoration to the border defects without backing the card in any way, and they did it in a minimalist fashion, where you can still see signs of the border restoration (likely the restorer assumed that the borders will not show when the card is framed). The card WILL display wonderfully on the new owner's wall, and its defects are almost exclusively in the blank borders, so we feel the card still merits a "very good" grade, given how nice the image area is, and given the lack of fading. Learn More about condition grades 
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