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Auction History Result 8p168 TWELVE CHAIRS Italian 1p '69 Sharon Tate, Orson Welles, the original version! Date Sold 1/18/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian One-Panel (known in Italy as a "2 Fogli") Movie Poster (1p; measures 39" x 55" [99 x 140 cm]) (Learn More) Una Su 13 (released in English-speaking countries as "The Twelve Chairs" and "12 + 1"'), the 1969 Nicolas Gessner & Luciano Lucignani Italian inheritance screwball comedy ("A jet set trip to... London.. Paris... Rome.. New York"; "Another city, another love, another chance..."; "Make a date to see Sharon Tate in her last movie"; "Finally released to the public!"; about a man who inherits twelve chairs, but after he sells them to different people, he discovers one had important documents hidden in it, and he must try to get back all the chairs to find the important one) starring Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Mylene Demongeot, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Lionel Jeffries. Note that this was Sharon Tate's final movie, because she was tragically murdered by Charles Manson's followers shortly after the movie was completed (in fact, she was pregnant throughout the filming, and they needed to take great lengths while filming to disguise her belly). IMDb says that this Italian movie was released in the U.S. in 1970, but we can only find newspaper ads from Canada, many of which have the bad taste to promote this silly comedy as "her last film" and "her smiling eyes haunt us, not her tragic fate". After Mel Brooks had his great success with "The Producers" in 1967, he was looking for a new movie to make, and he surely knew of this movie (either this version or the many versions that preceded it), and he adapted it in 1970, as "The Twelve Chairs", with Ron Moody and Frank Langella. Note that there were an amazing 25 (at least) different movie and TV adaptations based on this same novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, with the first in 1933. At first, there were 13 chairs, but at some point, they lowered that to 12, and the remaining movie adaptations had 12! Surely this must be close to some sort of record for most adaptations for a non-classic novel! 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 "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie! Also note that it is difficult to accurately date Italian posters, and some unmarked re-release posters can be extremely difficult to distinguish from first releases, so please bear that in mind before you place a bid. We used our best information to date this poster, but we can't always guarantee that the Italian posters we sell are not from an unmarked re-release, but this will only prove to be true in a very tiny number of cases. Note that this poster was folded in half an extra time. If it is purchased by itself (or solely with other posters that were folded an extra time), then it can be sent in one of our standard size mailers. But if it is purchased with posters that were NOT folded an extra time, then it will need to be sent in one of our oversized flat packages. If you solely purchase this poster, we will re-fold it an extra time. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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