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Auction History Result 4a723 LILIES OF THE FIELD pressbook '63 Sidney Poitier helps Lilia Skala & nuns build a chapel! Date Sold 1/10/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the Field, the classic 1963 Ralph Nelson religious melodrama ("Perhaps the most extraordinary story of courage, conflict and devotion ever filmed!"; "'He is not of our faith nor of our skin' said Mother Maria. 'But he is a man of greatness...'"; "Different by faith, skin and calling but what a wonderful adventure they shared!"; "A motion picture that may well strengthen your faith ...in Heaven ...in man ...and in motion pictures!"; "Five refugee nuns from behind the Iron Curtain and the American ex-GI who helped them raise a monument to faith in the Southwestern desert."; "The Wonderfully joyous and faith-filled story of the runaway Catholic nuns and the Baptist Country-Boy"; "It will move you... first to laughter - and then possibly to unabashed feeling."; "What a wonderful adventure you will share!"; "Based on the novel by William E. Barrett"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Sidney Poitier (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "as the life-loving ex-GI who one day encounters five nuns escaped from beyond the Berlin Wall..."; "as the fantastic Homer in Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the Field"; "is the incredible, unforgettable Homer Smith in Ralph Nelson's Lilies of the Field"; "Best Actor Award 1963 Berlin Film Festival"), Lilia Skala (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Mother Maria), Isa Crino (as Sister Agnes), Pamela Branch (as Sister Elizabeth), Francesca Jarvis (as Sister Albertine), Lisa Mann (as Sister Gertrude), Stanley Adams (as Juan), Dan Frazer (as Father Murphy), and Ralph Nelson. Note that director Ralph Nelson makes several cameo appearances in the movie as "Mr. Ashton", the man who Mother Maria always wants to get building materials from. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. Learn More about condition grades 
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