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Auction History Result 6t1518 WIZARD OF OZ group of 4 postcards 1939 postmarks predate the movie's premiere, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/2/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Group of 4 Original Vintage 3 1/4" x 5 1/2" [8 x 14 cm] Postcards (Learn More) The Wizard of Oz, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming family magical fantasy adventure musical ("MGM's miracle musical show of shows!"; "It's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor triumph!"; "Magnificent in its brilliant Technicolor splendor!"; "At Last It's Here Biggest Sensation Since "Snow White"!"; "The mighty miracle show that is the talk of America!"; "Amazing sights to see! The Tornado, Munchkinland, Horse of a Different Color, Startling Balloon Ascent, The Flying Monkeys, The Tree That Throws Apples"; "Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!"; based on the classic book of the same name by L. Frank Baum; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Judy Garland (as Dorothy), Frank Morgan (in the title role as The Wizard of Oz!), Ray Bolger (as The Scarecrow), Bert Lahr (as The Cowardly Lion), Jack Haley (as The Tin Man), Billie Burke (as Glinda, the Good Witch), Margaret Hamilton (as the Wicked Witch), Charley Grapewin, "The Munchkins", and Toto too! Note that MGM was worried about how well this movie would do at the box office, and they did something we don't remember seeing on any other major movie advertising! One of the taglines says "Biggest sensation since Snow White", which means MGM was advertising a Walt Disney movie, but that shows just how worried they were! Of course, they needn't have worried, because this was a timeless classic that has only improved with age. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned any of these really cool postcards! All four are the same, but someone had four of them and sent them to four different people, so the addresses and the messages are different. According to everything we could find on the Internet, the official Hollywood premiere of this movie took place on August 15, 1939, but three of these postcards all have official U.S. postmarks of May 16, 1939, and the fourth one is postmarked May 21, so obviously, there must have been some kind of promotion at MGM prior to that, where they gave out these postcards, but we don't know what it was. Some of the messages on the cards refer to the person being "in the studio" or "in the movies now", or "wish you could be here too", so obviously, they were written by a person who was at the studio when they sent these. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. The winner of this auction gets all four of these cards, and we have no others, and probably never will! Condition: very good. Two of the postcards have very clean fronts and two have some markings at the top of the image side, likely caused when the cards were postmarked. See our images to get a sense of the exact condition of these cards. Learn More about condition grades 
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