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Auction History Result 8m109 STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE paper banner '51 Marlon Brando & Vivien Leigh, Elia Kazan classic! Date Sold 7/5/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Paper Banner (measures 24" x 80" [61 x 203 cm]) (Learn More) A Streetcar Named Desire, the classic 1951 Elia Kazan (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) family relationship romantic melodrama ("...When she got there she met the brute Stan, and the side of New Orleans she hardly knew existed... Blanche, who wanted so much to stay a lady..."; "One of the scenes that make it so great!"; "Warner Bros. bring the screen all the fire of 'A Streetcar Named Desire'"; "Brando the original!"; "Brando the electrifying!"; "Brando the sensual!"; "In the role that made him legend!"; "Based upon the original play 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams as presented on the stage by Irene Mayer Selznick"; "From the Pulitzer Prize and Critics Award Play"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Vivien Leigh (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Blanche DuBois), Marlon Brando (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Stanley Kowalski; "Stan... mean, coarse, violent - and magnificent!"), Kim Hunter (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Stella Kowalski; "Stella... who took a lot because she loved a lot!"), Karl Malden (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; as Mitch; "Mitch... he fell for a wrong woman - and fell all the way down!"), Rudy Bond, and Nick Dennis 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 in the 1910s through 1930s, studios would make large cloth banners that movie theaters could hang up above their lobbies (or above their entrances). In the early 1940s, they changed to making paper banners (perhaps there was a cloth shortage during World War II). At first, they were made of one-sheet-like paper, and they didn't survive very well, and they apparently were not very popular, because very few survive. At some point around 1946, they changed to making them out of a heavy paper stock, similar to that used for 40x60s, but measuring 24" x 80". Many people think these became very popular at drive-in theaters, which were then expanding at a major pace throughout the country. The paper banners were very popular until the late 1960s, and then far fewer were made (perhaps corresponding to the decline in popularity of drive-in theaters). We have been consigned a wonderful collection of 133 of these paper banners, and we are auctioning them all, in 133 separate auctions. This is a great opportunity to acquire one or many of these rare posters! Condition: good. There is purple smudging across the bottom of the credits and across the bottom of the second line of the title (this may be a printing defect). There are just a few other small stains and scuffs scattered throughout (see our image). Learn More about condition grades 
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