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Auction History Result #0633 NATIVE SON 1sh '50 Richard Wright Date Sold 3/11/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style A One-Sheet Movie Poster (27" x 41") (Learn More) Sangre Negra (released in the U.S. as "Native Son"), the 1951 Pierre Chenal U.S./Argentinean black African American racial crime accidental murder melodrama ("The dynamite-loaded story of a negro and a white girl!"; "Now On the Screen At Last... Richard Wright's savage, terrifying best-seller Explodes onto the screen"; "I didn't mean to Kill her!"; based on the classic novel by Richard Wright; about a black man killing a liberal white girl out of fear) starring Jean Wallace, Richard Wright (as Bigger Thomas), Nicholas Joy, Gloria Madison, Willa Pearl Curtis, and Ruth Robert. Note that Orson Welles staged a very controversial version of this story on Broadway. It caused such a furor that Wright couldn't get any backing in the U.S. for a movie version of it, so he went to Argentina to shoot it with Buenos Aires doubling for New York and played the title role himself. It got very limited American release so any movie paper from it is very rare, and the U.S. and Argentinean posters have similar images! 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 poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube. Condition: very good. "Adult Entertainment" snipe in the middle left of the image background (no doubt easily removable by a professional restorer or a talented amateur) minor creases, light smudges, and scuffs along the foldlines and around the edges of the poster; a few tack holes in each corner as well as one at the bottom of the vertical foldline; The poster is in better condition than the above makes it sound! Once the snipe is removed and the minor border defects repaired, the poster will look wonderful! Learn More about condition grades 
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