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Auction History Result #7133 ANDROCLES & THE LION Australian daybill movie poster '52 RKO Date Sold 3/2/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (measures approximately 13" x 30") (Learn More) Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion, the 1952 Chester Erskine Ancient Rome Italy sword-and-sandal adventure comedy ("Flaming Love that set ablaze history's most sin-swept era!"; "Spectacle, Romance, Comedy!.. As only Shaw could write it and the screen show it!"; "Pleasure-mad Rome scarlet symbols of history's most sin-swept era... comes to wicked life again!"; "Flaming story of history's most fabulous era!"; "Never till now as truly spectacular and funny as Shaw wrote it!"; "Regal splendor, beautiful women, laughs supreme--midst scenes of sensational wonders in the glittering days of pagan Rome!"; "From the classic story by George Bernard Shaw") starring Jean Simmons ("as Lavinia, a Christian too lovely for martyrdom."), Victor Mature ("A stern Roman Captain susceptible to beauty."), Robert Newton ("as Ferrovius, a giant who lost his temper."), Maurice Evans ("as Caesar, suave, wily, elegant and cruel."), Alan Young (in the title role "as Androcles, henpecked tailor who loved lions."), and Jim Backus. Note that Harpo Marx was the original choice to play Androcles! Also, as happened on other RKO films, changes made by Howard Hughes caused delays and other problems for this movie. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. light water stain in the white background at yellow border at right as well as some tiny stains and small areas of rippling throughout the poster; tiny tear in the middle of the top horizontal fold; minor creases along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster Learn More about condition grades 
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