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Auction History Result 3s267 DR. DRACULA'S LIVING NIGHTMARE SHOW Benton REPRO WC '90s beauties at the mercy of monsters! Date Sold 11/5/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Circa 1990s Benton REPRODUCTION Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Dr. Dracula's Living Nightmare Show, the 1950s campy stage horror show ("First time here... you dare not look into his eyes!"; "On stage! In Person!"; "Beauties at the mercy of inhuman monsters"; "In the audience"; "All new and never dared before!"; "Alive!"; "In person"; "Watch out when the lights go out!"; "Super scary!"; "See Dazzling Donna Haynes 6Ft. 4ins. of 'Hex-appeal' plus on screen Super Horror Thriller"; "First time here... do not judge by anything seen before!") featuring art of monsters and spooks. This item was promoting a 1940s & 1950s traveling stage show that appeared in movie theaters before the "giant horror show on our screen". "Spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s (with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Note that a knowledgeable collector points out that this spook show was created by a magician and stage performer named Card Mondor, who toured all over the world (along with his wife Donna Haynes). Near the end of his spook show career he was based on Australia, where he also owned a magic shop and was involved in Australian TV and film distribution (which may explain how art from posters for this show ended up on teaser posters for the 1963 film Dementia 13). If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: This card is a REPRODUCTION of one made by the Benton Card Company which is a different company than the one that printed most of the window cards in the 1950s and 1960s. The Benton Card Company made mostly two-color window cards that used blown up newspaper ads. Some time in the 1990s, the owners of the Benton Card Company made reproductions of some classic titles, and they put a number in the bottom border with a capital "R" after it, which indicates that it is a REPRODUCTION (and this card is one of those reproductions!). Condition: very good to fine. This REPRODUCTION is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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