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GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH ('52) GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH ('52) 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5b1109 GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH 1sh 1952 DeMille circus classic, Charlton Heston, James Stewart! Date Sold 9/26/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, the classic 1952 Cecil B. DeMille (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) big top circus romantic love triangle melodrama ("Produced with the cooperation of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus"; "Mightiest Motion Pictures"; "Story by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, and Frank Cavett"; "Screenplay by Fredric M. Frank, Barre Lyndon and Theodore St. John"; "The Most Dangerous Place In The World... For Lovers To Meet!"; "Actually filmed under the big top!"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde (as The Great Sebastian), Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney, Emmett Kelly (the real-life circus clown, perhaps the most famous one ever, in a cameo role, as himself!), Cucciola, Antoinette Concello, John Kellogg, John Ridgeley, Frank Wilcox, Bob Carson, Lillian Albertson, Julia Faye, and John Ringling North (in a cameo role as himself) 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 this poster has something VERY UNUSUAL about it. What is that? The person who owned it had a home movie theater, and they had a large collection of one-sheets, and they would display them when they showed the movie, and they needed a way to protect the posters while they were being handled, and keep them from being damaged while on display. He came up with a solution that we have not seen before. He had a thin sheet of laminate plastic placed over the BACK of each one-sheet, BUT NOT ON THE FRONT (as is normally done when laminating the poster). If you have ever seen "laminated" posters, they are often covered with very thick plastic material on both sides. THE LAMINATE PLASTIC USED HERE IS A THIN MATERIAL. While we have never seen this before, it actually works well! The front of the poster is no different then it was, but the plastic on the back greatly helps protect the poster from tears or other defects (this is the same principle that was used decades ago when they would kraftback posters moving from theater to theater, and as with kraftbacking, the posters with this laminate plastic on the back CAN be folded as normal, as this poster was). WE DON'T KNOW HOW EASY OR HARD IT WOULD BE TO REMOVE THE PLASTIC FROM THE BACK (although there are a few where the plastic is separating, indicating it surely CAN be done), but the buyer of this poster will have two options. They can either keep the poster exactly as is, and if they display it, no one will even know about the plastic laminate on the back, or they can have a restorer remove it. Either way, DO NOT BID ON THIS POSTER UNLESS YOU CAN ACCEPT THAT IT HAS THIS ON THE BACK (but NOT on the front). Condition: good. The poster has laminate plastic on the back only (see above: but NOT on the front). There are some stains in the lower right border and some minor other wear (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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