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Auction History Result 6b019 STAGECOACH deluxe 9.5x12 photo 1939 John Ford, iconic image of stagecoach in Monument Valley! Date Sold 5/1/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Deluxe 9 1/2" x 12" [24 x 30 cm] Movie Photo (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 this photo measures 9 1/2" x 12" [24 x 30 cm], but it has not been trimmed. Also note that this is a deluxe photo printed on double weight high quality paper stock. On the back of the top right of the photograph is a light stamp which reads "John LeRoy Johnston, Walter Wanger Productions, Inc. 1045 No. Formosa, Hollywood, California". This was the street address of Walter Wanger Productions in 1939. Mr. Johnston was Walter Wanger's publicist and press agent at this time. We don't know for what purpose this deluxe photo was created, but it was certainly created by the production company to promote the movie in some way, and it has a great far shot of the title stagecoach followed by soldiers in iconic Monument Valley. Finally, note that we recently auctioned a similar deluxe photo of Monument Valley, which had a slightly different image, but that photo was on different photo paper, and it measured 10 3/4" x 13 3/4", and it was not stamped on the back. That one came from a different consignor, and it auctioned for $304. Condition: very good. The photo has some faint smudges around the edges in the white borders but is otherwise in nice condition (see our images of the front and back). Learn More about condition grades 
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