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Auction History Result 1y880 THEY WON'T FORGET 1sh R56 glamorous older Lana Turner in her first notable role! Date Sold 3/16/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1956 Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) They Won't Forget, the 1937 Mervyn LeRoy anti-Semitic frame-up Southern courtroom lawyer murder mystery crime melodrama ("Talk and DIE..."; "Until Now their lips were frozen with fear!"; "The story the nation whispered now thunders from the screen!"; "The picture the whole world is talking about!"; taken directly from the 1915 Mary Phagan murder case, and it follows the facts very closely; in that case, a 14 year-old white Georgia girl was found murdered, and she worked in a factory owned by a Jewish man named Leo Frank, and even though all evidence pointed towards the black janitor, the publisher of the leading Atlanta newspaper chose to create a case against Frank, both because he was a Northerner and because he was Jewish; after a sensational case with little evidence, Frank was found guilty and sentenced to death; the governor of Georgia commuted his sentence to life imprisonment, which ended his career; while on the way to prison, Frank was kidnapped and lynched; the entire sordid story was documented in the novel "Death in the Deep South" by Aben Kandel, and it was that novel that was the basis for this movie; in reality, one year after the events, the black janitor in fact confessed to the murder; the movie had one substantial difference from the book and from reality, which is that it did not ever explicitly state in any way in the movie that the man was Jewish, but we believe most viewers were able to "put two and two together") starring Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger, Allyn Joslyn, Lana Turner (super young in her very first role, as the sexy teenager who is murdered early in the movie!), and Elisabeth Risdon. Note that Hollywood is known for its willingness to bend and stretch the truth, but surely one of the most amazing examples of this was when this movie was re-released in 1956, Lana Turner was top billed, even though she was barely in the movie, and a much older image of her was used on the poster. We can't imagine how deceived those 1956 moviegoers felt! 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 Lana Turner had her first "big" role in this movie, in the small part of the girl whose murder sets all the events of the movie into motion. In an unusual twist, the movie was reissued in either the very late 1940s or 1950s, and Lana Turner is billed above the title, and even more amazingly, a picture of her is used when she is at the least 10 years older than she is in this movie! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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