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Auction History Result 1a2107 FORBIDDEN PLANET style A 1/2sh 1956 art of Robby the Robot carrying sexy Anne Francis, rare! Date Sold 10/31/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style A Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) Forbidden Planet, the classic 1956 Fred McLeod Wilcox science fiction (sci-fi) outer space robot monster thriller ("Amazing!"; "In Cinemascope and Color"; "Based on the story by Irving Block & Allen Adler"; very loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; about space men who journey to a distant planet, and they find that all the members of the original expedition have died, except for one man and his daughter, and they have discovered the secrets of a long lost civilization called "The Krell", which dwarfs anything humans have ever discovered, but there is a very dark side to those secrets that is soon revealed) starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman (as the cook, who was put in the movie for comic relief), Robby the Robot (billed as "Introducing Robby the Robot"), James Drury, and Frankie Darro (who was inside the robot suit until he was fired early in the production for showing up inebriated and almost damaging the expensive prop). Note that after Robby the Robot appeared in this movie, he had another movie role in "The Invisible Boy", and then he appeared in a slightly modified version as the robot in TV's "Lost in Space". On November 21, 2017, the original "Robby the Robot" was auctioned, and it sold for $5.375 million! 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: Note that the style A and style B half-sheets have somewhat similar images, but on the style B, Robby the Robot is full-length, and on the style A he is waist-high and close up (the style A also has more additional images around Robby than the style B). We have previously only auctioned four examples of this style A half-sheet in all our years of auctioning (we auctioned one example twice)! Also 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: good to very good. The poster has tiny bits of surface paper loss along parts of both folds. It has uneven darkening around the edges (a small part of it caused by tape that was or is on the back) but very fortunately the darkening is almost completely only in the blank borders except in the top center of the poster, a tiny bit that enters into the green background. A previous owner used colored inks or marker to slightly touch up some of the surface paper loss on the folds. After further restoration by a talented professional, the poster will display wonderfully and it will only have a tiny bit of paint restoration along parts of the folds. Learn More about condition grades 
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