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Auction History Result Lot #: VHP7 051 PINKY half-sheet movie poster '49 Jeanne Crain, Elia Kazan  Date Sold 7/11/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 7 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More) Pinky, the 1949 Elia Kazan interracial romantic melodrama ("Does he know... Does he know... Does He Know..."; "...and Pinky knew that she was trapped... That her whole life had led up to this..."; "The poignant story of a girl who fell hopelessly, desperately in love"; "One loved her... One warned her... One taunted her..."; "This year... the picture is 'Pinky'"; "...she passed for white!"; "The best film of the year is Pinky"; "Based on a novel by Cid Ricketts Sumner"; "Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck"; about a light-skinned black African American girl who passes for white, and the complications that ensue; 20th Century Fox massively diluted the power of the story by casting a white actress in the lead role, and they were obviously scared of the subject matter, for the posters only make reference to it in an oblique way) starring Jeanne Crain (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Patricia "Pinky" Johnson), Ethel Barrymore (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Ethel Waters (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), William Lundigan, Griff Barnett, and Frederick O'Neal (in his debut role). Note that John Ford directed a short amount of this film before being replaced by Elia Kazan, who claims to have re-shot all of Ford's material. 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 has never been folded! Most half-sheet posters were folded twice (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! Condition: very good. V-shaped chip of paper loss in the top blank border; four tears in the bottom border and many small tears in the right blank border; some light smudges around the edges of the poster; just a very few scuffs and creases within the image area. The poster is in better condition than the above makes it sound! The defects are minor and are primarily in the borders, and the image area has a "crisp" feel to it, and the poster is unfolded! Learn More about condition grades 
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