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Auction History Result 4d0097 STAGECOACH LC 1939 John Wayne on stagecoach, John Ford western classic, rare first release! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Stagecoach, the classic 1939 John Ford (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) cowboy western ("A powerful story of 9 strange people"; "Excitement That Rises To A Fever Pitch - and never lets you go!"; "A Strange Frontier Incident of 1885"; "2 Women on a desperate journey with 7 Strange Men"; "Nine oddly assorted strangers start out by stagecoach for Lordsburg, New Mexico. Each has his own personal reasons for wanting to get there. Then strange things begin to happen. The telegraph is mysteriously cut... the way station burned to the ground. Danger grows steadily more menacing... until... as convention breaks down, the lives of the travelers are tangled together... you live with them this strange adventure... tense, full of action... deeply moving..."; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a stagecoach that is carrying a group of people across the plains through Apache territory and personal differences) starring Claire Trevor (as Dallas, the "marked" woman), John Wayne (as The Ringo Kid), Andy Devine (as a babbling driver), John Carradine (as a gambling "gentleman"), Thomas Mitchell (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as a drunk doctor), Louise Platt (as a pregnant upper class lady), George Bancroft (as a sheriff), Donald Meek (as a whiskey salesman), Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, and Tom Tyler (in a small but key role). Note that John Wayne had received the starring role in "The Big Trail" in 1930, and it had done poorly, and his starring days seemed to be over! In the mid-1930s, he successfully starred in a series of low budget B-westerns, but was not considered for major productions. But in 1939, when Gary Cooper turned down the lead in "Stagecoach", John Ford took a chance on John Wayne, but the studio thought so little of him that he wasn't pictured on the one-sheet or most of the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this 1939 first release lobby card, and only one in the last 20 years (that last example sold for $1,139)! Note also that John Wayne only appears on two of the scene cards from this movie, and not on the title card, so it is even more difficult to attain a card from this movie with John Wayne than it would be otherwise. Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. There are a few tiny pinholes in the corners and a tiny pair of staple holes in the upper right blue background area, and also the lower left blue background area. There is a crease in the top left corner and some faint smudges around the edges. Someone once very lightly started to crease the card into thirds, but it is very faint and only slightly noticeable from the front. The card has had no restoration and it displays well, or certainly, restoration could be performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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