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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result h001 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON title movie lobby card '54 classic! Date Sold 4/17/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Creature from the Black Lagoon, the classic 1954 Jack Arnold Universal 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("Sheer, stark terror grips you in underwater... 3-D"; "Terrifying monster of the ages raging with pent-up passions! ...with every man his mortal enemy ...and a woman's beauty his prey!"; "Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!"; "Amazing! Startling! Shocking!"; "Monster from a million years ago!"; "Clawing Monster From A Lost Age strikes from the Amazon's forbidden depths!"; "Thrills beyond compare in... 3D") starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams (billed as "Julia Adams"), Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Ricou Browning (who played the Gill Man underwater), Ben Chapman (who played the Gill Man on land), and Bernie Gozier. Note that the inspiration for this movie began when William Alland (the producer of this movie) was playing an acting role in "Citizen Kane", and he learned of a myth about half-man half-fish creatures in the Amazon. He wrote notes for a story called "The Sea Monster" in 1951, combining the above myth with the "Beauty and the Beast" story. In December 1952, a 59-page treatment called "Black Lagoon" was written by Maurice Zimm and Leo Lieberman wrote a script based on that treatment in early 1953, but Universal turned it down. After this script was written, a new script was written by Arthur Ross and Harry Essex, and that was the script that was used for the movie as filmed, and the last great Universal monster was created! Finally, note that the wonderful creature costume was created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in this movie, but the head of the makeup department did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to this movie and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good. The card is lightly rippled across the middle half of the card, where the card was once water stained. The card had creases and smudges in the blank corners and small paper loss in each corner, and some amateur restorer replaced the missing paper, and then painted over the borders (except for the areas of writing in the bottom blank border). There was a 1" x 6" piece of tape on the back of the center of the bottom border, which had been placed on the back of the card because there was a semi-circular area of paper loss in the center of the bottom border, which extended into the end of the word "Screenplay", the word "by" next to it, and the "H" of "Harry". The person who did the border restoration put a new piece of paper in that area, and then glued it to the back of the card, and then colored in the missing area at the center of the bottom of the image, but did not re-write the missing letters. THIS CARD IS IN BETTER CONDITION THAN THE ABOVE MAKES IT SOUND! If I owned this great card, I would immediately give it to a talented restorer. They could remove the amateur restoration from the borders, and then wet the card and then dry it between glass, which would make the card lay completely flat again. They could then perform proper expert restoration to the border defects. After proper restoration, the card will look fantastic, and there will truly be only a tiny amount of restoration within the image (very tiny bits at the edge of the four corners, and the little bit in the center of the bottom border described above). It is a minus that the card has the defects described above, but the card is not at all faded, and there are just a very few minor scuffs within the image area, both of which are unusual for examples of this card! Learn More about condition grades 
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