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MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ('52) MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID ('52) Turkish OR search current auctions Auction History Result #6104 MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID Turkish movie poster '52 Date Sold 2/24/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Turkish Movie Poster (measures 27 1/2" x 39 1/4") (Learn More) Million Dollar Mermaid, the 1952 Mervyn LeRoy fictionalized biography aquatic synchronized swimming musical extravaganza ("MGM's Miracle Technicolor Musical!"; "A musical miracle... Inspired by the true story of bathing beauties!") starring Esther Williams (champion swimmer who made a long series of aquatic swimming movies; as Annette Kellerman), Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, and Donna Corcoran. Note that this movie was a highly fictionalized biography of Annette Kellerman, who was a major celebrity of the early 1900s! Her nickname was "The Diving Venus", and she was arrested in Boston in 1907 for wearing a then-scandalous one-piece bathing suit! She continued to be controversial and she had a nude appearance in "A Daughter of the Gods", believed to be the first nude scene in a major movie. She was born with deformed legs, but overcame that through swimming, and made three attempts to swim the English Channel, none of which were successful. She appeared in a total of 13 movies between 1909 and 1924. 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: This Turkish poster measures 27 1/2" x 39 1/4" and is folded. Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. vertical creases to the left and right of the vertical fold in William's image as well as minor creases, smudges, and scuffs throughout the poster (more so along the foldlines); 4" of separation in the left end of the top and bottom horizontal folds (repaired with tape from the back at bottom) as well as minor separation at some of the other ends of the foldlines; tiny hole in the middle crossfold Learn More about condition grades 
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