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Auction History Result #8809 HOME TOWN STORY Aust db '51 Monroe Date Sold 5/6/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Australian Daybill Movie Poster (measures approximately 13" x 30") (Learn More) Home Town Story, the 1951 Arthur Pierson political bureaucratic newspaper journalism melodrama ("It could happen anywhere!"; "The Romantic School Teacher"; "The Beautiful Secretary"; "The Trapped Child"; "The Fighting Editor"; also written by Arthur Pierson; this odd movie was commissioned by General Motors to glorify "big business"!; it shows a liberal newspaper man who is anti-Big Business, until his sister is trapped in a cave-in, and only modern technology is able to save her, which causes the reporter to realize just how great big business is!; MGM distributed this movie as a favor to GM, and this movie would have been quickly forgotten except that young Marilyn Monroe had a minor supporting role, which meant it could be shown to large audiences) starring Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, Marilyn Monroe, and Alan Hale Jr. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good to fine. very light horizontal crease 1/4" below the bottom horizontal foldline; very minor creases along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster; very minor scuffing in the left of the top tagline area Learn More about condition grades 
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