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Auction History Result Lot #: #299 SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS LC '41 Lake, McCrea  Date Sold 12/16/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 6 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Sullivan's Travels, the classic 1941 Preston Sturges movie acting comedy ("Veronica Lake's on the take"; "Written and Directed by Preston Sturges"; about a Hollywood director who pretends to be a hobo in order to make a more realistic movie about the troubles of the poor, but he comes to realize that they don't want to see such a movie, and that they just want to get their mind off their troubles) starring Joel McCrea (in the title role as John Lloyd Sullivan), Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest, Margaret Hayes, Porter Hall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore, and Esther Howard. Note that Veronica Lake was far along in her pregnancy (six months) when she signed to do this movie, but she was able to hide that fact from Preston Sturges. But as filming continued, it became painfully obvious, and Sturges became furious, but all he could do was "shoot around it", and part of the way this was done was by having her dress in baggy "men's" tramp clothes, which hid her figure, but which reduced her sex appeal considerably! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. this lobby card was used in Australia, and it has a "Not suitable for general exhibition" stamp. Fortunately this is in the entirely blank white border area. There are light brown water stains in the lower left border art and somewhat around the edges of the card (most noticeable in the top border above the word "JOEL". There are several pinholes in each corner and a single pinhole in the image area in the background between the stars. There are a few faint smudges and creases in the image area, but none in the stars' faces. This card is extremely "restorable"! A talented restorer can surely either remove the stains (or greatly lighten them) through chemical means, and at the most, the card would require some touch up where the stains were. At the same time the pinholes could be filled in, the Australian stamp removed, and the card would look wonderful, and there would be next to no restoration in the main image area! Learn More about condition grades 
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