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Auction History Result 6b228 STAGECOACH LC 1939 young John Wayne shown, John Ford western classic, rare first release! Date Sold 5/1/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Stagecoach, the classic 1939 John Ford (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) cowboy western ("A powerful story of 9 strange people"; "Excitement That Rises To A Fever Pitch - and never lets you go!"; "A Strange Frontier Incident of 1885"; "2 Women on a desperate journey with 7 Strange Men"; "Nine oddly assorted strangers start out by stagecoach for Lordsburg, New Mexico. Each has his own personal reasons for wanting to get there. Then strange things begin to happen. The telegraph is mysteriously cut... the way station burned to the ground. Danger grows steadily more menacing... until... as convention breaks down, the lives of the travelers are tangled together... you live with them this strange adventure... tense, full of action... deeply moving..."; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a stagecoach that is carrying a group of people across the plains through Apache territory and personal differences) starring Claire Trevor (as Dallas, the "marked" woman), John Wayne (as The Ringo Kid), Andy Devine (as a babbling driver), John Carradine (as a gambling "gentleman"), Thomas Mitchell (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as a drunk doctor), Louise Platt (as a pregnant upper class lady), George Bancroft (as a sheriff), Donald Meek (as a whiskey salesman), Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, and Tom Tyler (in a small but key role). Note that John Wayne had received the starring role in "The Big Trail" in 1930, and it had done poorly, and his starring days seemed to be over! In the mid-1930s, he successfully starred in a series of low budget B-westerns, but was not considered for major productions. But in 1939, when Gary Cooper turned down the lead in "Stagecoach", John Ford took a chance on John Wayne, but the studio thought so little of him that he wasn't pictured on the one-sheet or most of the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that John Wayne was sadly not pictured on the first release posters for this classic western, and he was not on the title card. He was on two of the scenes, and this is one of those two, and most people consider it superior to the other, because he is actually on the stagecoach that the movie is all about. We have only auctioned this card once before, and that was 15 years ago! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good to very good. The card has tiny a pair of staple holes in the corners and in the center of the card. It has a tiny tear in the left and right blank borders, a small stain in the right blank border, and a small crease in the bottom right blank corner. It has some smudges and scuffs around the edges. It has a faint partial horizontal crease across the lower part of the image, and entering the bottom of the title, but it is not very noticeable. There are two long pieces of tape on the back of the center of two borders, but they were not put there for any restoration purpose. Certainly, this great card can be displayed as it is, or one could choose to have some restoration performed, but either way, the new owner will have a wonderful card to display on their wall! Learn More about condition grades 
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