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y507 WHEN COMEDY WAS KING half-sheet movie poster '60 Chaplin, Keaton

Date Sold 4/26/2005
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More)

Robert Youngson's When Comedy Was King, the 1960 Robert Youngson ("Winner of 2 Academy Awards and 6 Academy Award nominations") comedy compilation documentary ("You never dreamed a film could be so funny"; "Buster mixes into the Policeman's Parade"; "The great auto crack-up"; "Hanging by thin rope over sheer cliff"; "The funniest battle of all time"; "Gloria Swanson chained to the tracks"; "Fatty and Mabel adrift in sinking room"; "The all-time great comedians in their all-time greatest moments!"; "The fastest, funniest film ever on the screen! With the greatest comedians he world has known!") featuring clips from classic comedy movies starring Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Wallace Berry, Gloria Swanson, Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, The Keystone Cops, The Sennett Girls, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Chase, Stuart Erwin, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Snub Pollard, Al St. John, James Finlayson, Billy Bevan (one of the better Charlie Chaplin imitators of the time), Mack Swain, Madeline Hurlock, Vernon Dent, Bobby Vernon, and Keystone Teddy
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Important Added Info: Note that this poster has never been machine folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded once horizontally and once vertically right off of the printing press. It is very difficult to find an unfolded copy of most half-sheets, especially from before 1970!

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