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Auction History Result 8x154 SABU 8x10 Dixie ice cream premium 1940 portrait in Drums costume + biography on the back! Date Sold 8/13/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Dixie Ice Cream Premium Still (8x10; measures 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm]) (Learn More) Sabu Dastagir was an Indian actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was found during location shooting for The Elephant Boy (at the time, he was the ward of the royal elephant stables), and immediately recruited by United Artists to become their star! Some of his movies include: Jungle Book, Black Narcissus, and The Thief of Bagdad (where he played Abu, the thief, son of Abu the Thief, and grandson of Abu the Thief). When his film career wound down at the end of the 1940s, he tried his hand at other things, including appearing in a circus act as "Sabu the Elephant Boy". He signed a contract to star in a movie in India, but he was denied a work permit, so he never got to make a movie in his native country. In the early 1960s, he was still extremely healthy, and yet he passed away in 1963 at the age of 39 from a heart attack. According to his widow, actress Marilyn Cooper, Sabu had a complete physical just a few days before his death, at which time his doctor told him, "If all my patients were as healthy as you, I'd be out of business." Important Added Info: Note that this is a special color 8" x 10" item that was given away as a premium from the Dixie Cup company. The Dixie Cup company created a large number of such premiums, which were given away to kids who sent in Dixie Cup lids. Each premium would have a full-color image of the star on the front, and on the back was biographical information of that star, along with black & white scenes from some of their movies. Every Dixie Cup premium would have two punch holes in one border, and kids would be sent two "covers" (one front and one back) to create a "scrapbook" (the covers gave the instructions on how to make the scrapbook by binding the Dixie Cup premiums between the two covers "with color cord, shoe string, or ribbon". Note that these were first made in the mid-1930s, and they continued all the way to the early 1950s (when the two holes switched to the top of the premium). Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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