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Auction History Result 7m122 GYPSY teaser 24sh 1962 Rosalind Russell & sexy Natalie Wood by the title, different & rare! Date Sold 6/18/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Tri-Folded Teaser Twenty-Four-Sheet Movie Poster (24sh; measures approximately 9' x 20') (Learn More) Gypsy, the 1962 Mervyn LeRoy musical biography ("Warner Bros. presents all the heart and happiness of the Broadway hit..."; "The girl who became the greatest show in show business."; "Everything's coming up roses for you and for you!"; "See the motion picture Hear the soundtrack stereo album Read the book"; "Based upon the play 'Gypsy.'"; "Book by Arthur Laurents"; "Music by Jule Styne"; "Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim"; "Based upon the Memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee"; of famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee) starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood (in the title role "as Gypsy Rose Lee"), Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, and Betty Bruce. Note that Gypsy Rose Lee (whose life story was highly fictionalized in this movie) was born in 1911 to the ultimate stage mother, who devoted her life to trying to give her two daughters successful careers in show business (at the time, primarily in vaudeville). Gypsy Rose Lee's birth name was Rose Louise Hovick, but she was called Louise from an early age, and her mother successfully got her a vaudeville career, sometimes with her sister, and sometimes solely by herself. In 1937, at the age of 26, she signed a contract with 20th Century Fox under her mostly real name of Louise Hovick, and she appeared in "Ali Baba Goes to Town" and five more movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Her sister broke off contact with both her and her mother, and became the actress June Havoc. While Gypsy Rose Lee did not have a memorable film career, her turbulent and exciting private life (and the play and movie based on it) has made her a household name, even to this day! 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 is a teaser twenty-four sheet (note the complete lack of credits on the poster). It is one of three extremely rare 24-sheets which we are currently auctioning (in three separate auctions). Also note that this twenty-four sheet was printed in 15 sections designed to overlap. Finally, note this 24-sheet poster was folded in a way that makes it resemble a tri-folded six-sheet (only much larger, of course, as there are more sections). But the length and width of the folded 24-sheet is just about the same as that of a folded six-sheet or three-sheet. This means that this 24-sheet needs to be sent in an oversized flat package, which will measure roughly 15" x 35", and approximately 2" high, and it will cost more to send than a regular sized package. Condition: very good. The poster was tri-folded only. It has some slight darkening on the part that was on the outside when it was fully folded. There is a small portion of the top center of the poster that had tears and tiny paper loss (it solely affects solid white paper), and someone put tape on the back of the tears there. There is a 4" tear and small paper loss in the area just to the left of the middle of the "G" of the title, and it affects a small amount of the purple background and enters the orange dot. Other than these relatively minor defects, the poster has likely survived in about as good condition as one could hope, and it is quite likely that no other example of this poster survives at all. Learn More about condition grades 
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