eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8w867 THREE PENNY OPERA 1sh '63 Curt Jurgens, cool artwork of cast! Date Sold 12/1/2009Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Die Dreigroschenoper (released in the U.S. as "Three Penny Opera"), the 1963 Wolfgang Staudte French/German musical melodrama ("It's the sassiest, brassiest entertainment that ever flipped its skirts at you!!!"; "NOW all the marvelous mischief and merriment of 'The World's Most Popular Stage Musical' bubbles wickedly to the screen!"; "Three Penny Opera ...is priceless entertainment!"; "The longest run musical ever to brighten the stage lights up the screen with new excitement"; "By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill"; "English lyrics by Eric Bentley") starring Curd Jurgens (as Macheath, Mack the Knife), Hildegard Knef (billed as "Hildegarde Neff"), June Ritchie, Gert Froebe, Lino Ventura, and Sammy Davis Jr. ("as the Streetsinger"). Note that Bertolt Brecht was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet from the 1920s to 1956. He was the main proponent of the genre named epic theater. During the Nazi period and World War II he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia and then in the United States. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Some of his works include: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and Mother Courage and Her Children 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. There are some tears and areas of tattering around the edges of the poster. Learn More about condition grades
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