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1y814 STORY OF MANKIND 1sh '57 Ronald Colman, the Marx Bros., the BIG BIG BIG story!

Date Sold 3/16/2010
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More)

The Story of Mankind, the 1957 Irwin Allen all-star campy fantasy melodrama ("The big, big, big story! Never so vast an undertaking! More than your eyes have ever seen!"; "The biggest star cast ever on one screen!"; "Every Man, Woman and Child Must See It!"; "The whole story of men and their women from Creation to now!"; "The most tumultuous sights ever seen or imagined!"; "Read by countless millions -- in 19 languages!"; "A miracle of motion picture making and all of it TECHNICOLOR from Warner Bros."; "All amazingly before your eyes!"; "Nothing like it ever attempted before"; "Based on the book by Hendrik Van Loon"; that shows the history of man through a series of flashbacks with an all-star cast) starring Ronald Colman (in his final role, a year before his death; as The Spirit of Man), Hedy Lamarr (as Joan of Arc), Groucho Marx (as Peter Minuit), Harpo Marx (as Sir Isaac Newton), Chico Marx (their final appearance together as the Marx Brothers), Virgina Mayo (as Cleopatra), Agnes Moorehead (as Queen Elizabeth I), Vincent Price (as the devil), Peter Lorre (as Nero), Charles Coburn (as Hippocrates), Cedric Hardwicke, Cesar Romero, Dennis Hopper (as Napoleon Bonaparte), Marie Wilson (as Marie Antoinette), Helmut Dantine (as Marc Antony), Edward Everett Horton, Reginald Gardiner (as William Shakespeare), Marie Windsor, Cathy O'Donnell, Francis X. Bushman (as Moses), Jim Ameche (as Alexander Graham Bell), Dani Crayne (as Helen of Troy), Anthony Dexter (as Christopher Columbus), Austin Green (as Abraham Lincoln), Reginald Sheffield (as Julius Caesar), Bobby Watson (as Adolf Hitler), "...and lots, lots more!"
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