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Auction History Result 3y0390 THIS ISLAND EARTH 2nd printing Australian 1sh 1950s completely different art, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/14/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded 1950s Australian One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 40" [69 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) This Island Earth, the 1955 Joseph M. Newman science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("The supreme excitement of our time!"; "2 1/2 years in the making! ...to bring you sights of Fantastic Amazement never before possible on the motion picture screen!"; "Trapped amid the mysteries of outer space they challenged the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; "In out-of-this-world color by Technicolor"; "The mortal's World is left behind!"; "Earthlings prepared for Outer Space!"; "Kidnapped in midair by giant Space Ship!"; "Pursued by the deadly rays of destruction"; "Crashing the blazing thermal barrier"; "Two mortals trapped in outer space... challenging the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; based on the novel by Raymond F. Jones) starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, and Russell Johnson. Note that some advertising material refers to the title as "This Island, Earth", while others (including the one-sheet) have "This Island Earth". Note that the wonderful alien creature costumes in this movie were 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 Creature From the Black Lagoon, but the head of the makeup department on that movie did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal around a year later. 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 movie, "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably be 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 Creature From the Black Lagoon, this movie, and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. 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 we have never auctioned a first release Australian one-sheet for this movie, and we can't find anyone who has! We have never auctioned another example of this poster, and we consulted with experts, and they think that this poster is likely from an undated second release of this movie in Australia but that it could also have been created for some sort of special showing, perhaps during the first release of the movie. Please do not bid on this poster it is surely from the very first release of the movie, because we feel sure it is not. If anyone knows more about this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: fair to good. The poster has a most unusual "defect". Someone who was exhibiting the movie felt the poster was not colorful enough, and they enhanced much of the lettering and the image with colored markers, making this already extremely rare poster a "one-of-a-kind" hand-colored poster! Depending on how you look at it, this could be viewed as a major detraction, or as a cool addition to the poster. We have graded it "fair to good", but other than the enhancement, it is in pretty nice condition, and we leave it to the bidders to decide how to value it. Learn More about condition grades 
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