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Auction History Result 7j0001 ELLERY QUEEN 30x40 1940s Ralph Bellamy with pretty Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter! Date Sold 2/2/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded Thirty by Forty Poster (30x40; measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Ellery Queen, the 1940 stock 30x40 poster ("The ace amateur sleuth of radio and fiction now on the screen!") for a series of seven movies based on the classic character created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee (who together wrote under the pseudonym Ellery Queen) starring Ralph Bellamy (in the title role as Ellery Queen), and Margaret Lindsay (as Nikki Porter). Theaters would order this poster, which had a large blank square in the bottom right. They would be sent a series of large paper snipes with the titles of specific entries of the series, and they could paste in each snipe as needed, thus getting many posters for the price of one. Note that this classic series of novels first came to the screen in 1935, as a Monogram movie, called "The Spanish Cape Mystery", starring Donald Cook in the lead role. They followed it with a sequel the next year, replacing Cook with Eddie Quillan. Neither movie did that well at the box office, and Monogram dropped the series. Columbia bought the rights in 1940, when they made "Ellery Queen, Master Detective", with Ralph Bellamy taking over in the lead role, and six more movies were made the next two years, and then the series stopped again. A TV series "The Adventures of Ellery Queen", began in 1950 with Richard Hart in the lead role. The next season he was replaced by Lee Bowman, who lasted three years and then was replaced by Hugh Marlowe, who played the character for five years, and then the series ended. After a two year gap, "The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen" aired on TV starring George Nader for one season, and then Lee Philips for another season. The character was not revived until 1975, when Jim Hutton played the lead role in the TV series "Ellery Queen", but it only lasted one season. 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 most 30x40s from this period were printed on a heavy stock and usually only sent to theaters rolled. However, the studios would also sometimes make special 30x40s that were created on a somewhat thinner paper and were folded when they were created. We can't say for certain that this poster was sent to theaters folded, but it is printed on a "one-sheet-like" paper, so we think that is very likely. Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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