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Auction History Result 8r199 STAGECOACH LC 1939 John Wayne & entire cast at table, John Ford western classic, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/16/2018 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 John Wayne was sadly not pictured on the first release posters for this classic western, and he was not on the title card. He was on two of the scenes, and this is one of those two! We have only auctioned this card once before, and that was 14 years ago, when it auctioned for $3,389! 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. The top 3/4" and the bottom 1" were folded back at one time. The card had many tiny pinholes and a few smudges around the edges, with a faint stain in the bottom of the "OA" of "STAGECOACH" and in the background below it, with a few tiny stains to the left of that. There were just a few tiny stains scattered in the image, but they were likely on the back of the card, because you can see them there, but you can't see them from the front. Someone put paint restoration over much of the borders and the background area around the title, but the card was not backed, and no other restoration was performed. In spite of the above defects, we would think most collectors could happily display this card as it is (because most of the defects are in the blank borders), or certainly restoration could be performed. Learn More about condition grades 
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