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Auction History Result 6p1372 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES herald 1946 wonderful George Petty art of sexy pinup showgirls, ultra rare! Date Sold 6/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 3" x 6 1/2" [8 x 17 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Ziegfeld Follies, the 1945 Vincente Minnelli all-star musical comedy ("Greatest production since the birth of motion pictures!"; "MGM's Greatest show of stage and screen"; "James Melton & Marion Bell - Love songs, dance and spectacle in a midnight masquerade!"; "Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer thrillingly dance into your heart in 'This Heart of Mine'!"; Fred Astaire & Lucille Bremer in 'Limehouse Blues'... A love-dream in moody Chinatown!"; "Fred Astaire & Gene Kelly in 'The Babbitt and The Bromide'... Terrific tapping twosome in a grand Gershwin number!"; Victor Moore & Edward Arnold - They don't pay the two dollars... But deliver two thousand laughs!"; showing Flo Ziegfeld looking down from heaven and organizing the ultimate musical!) starring Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball ("Whip-wielding Queen of the Gorgeous Panther Girls!"), Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice ("wins the sweepstake in uproarious comedy sketch!"), Judy Garland ("sings to thrill you in a de luxe dancing sketch!"), Kathryn Grayson ("sings the Grand Finale, a high note of melody and Technicolor magic!"), Lena Horne ("makes 'Love' a sultry song sensation!"), Gene Kelly, James Melton, Victor Moore, Red Skelton ("shows what might happen... 'When Television Comes!'"), Esther Williams ("Beauty in an underwater wonder-world!"), Marion Bell, Cyd Charisse, Hume Cronyn, William Frawley, William Powell ("as the Great Ziegfeld plans his greatest show!"; as Flo Ziegfeld), Keenan Wynn ("makes a phone call. It's a long-distance laugh-riot!"), Virginia O'Brien, Eddie Cantor, Robert Lewis, and "Bunin's Puppets". Note that this movie is the one that has the only joint dancing appearance of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire! Also note that this movie had a huge number of "Ziegfeld Girls" appearing throughout, and most of them were unknown beautiful young girls who were "gleaned from college campus, the stage, department stores, modeling salons, everywhere"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: George Petty Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this herald! Note that we were recently consigned an excellent collection of heralds! We auctioned the first 30 of these in our April Major Auction, and all but four of those sold for between $2,012 and $110! Now we continue with another 40 heralds from this collection (in 40 separate auctions), and we will continue auctioning 40 of them every four weeks until they are all auctioned. There is only one of each herald, and many of them are quite rare, so if you don't purchase one, it may be many years before you see it at auction again! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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