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Auction History Result 1x020 BEST FOOT FORWARD trade ad '43 Kapralik art of Lucille Ball & Harry James playing trumpet! Date Sold 6/17/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Trade-Ad (measures 9 1/4" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 2 pages) (Learn More) Best Foot Forward, the 1943 Edward Buzzell military prep school musical comedy ("Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's Honey of a Musical!"; "Technicolor and Terrific!"; "Book by John Cecil Holm"; "Music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane"; "Produced on the stage by George Abbott"; based on the hit Broadway musical, Lucille Ball is a movie star who visits a military prep school and is invited to be queen of the prom, but then complications ensue) starring Lucille Ball (billed as "Gorgeous Lucille Ball"), Harry James (billed as "Hot Harry James and His Music Makers"), William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler (in her final movie role before retiring at 16!), Tommy Dix, Nancy Walker, June Allyson (in her first movie role!), Kenny Bowers, Gloria DeHaven, Jack Jordan, Chill Wills, and Stanley Donen (uncredited in his first movie role as a cadet, years before he became a director!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jacques Kapralik Important Added Info: Note that from the 1920s on, studios would create elaborate trade ads, often in full color, and often using the finest artists of the day. They would run these ads in their studio yearbooks and exhibitor magazines, and they would also print those trade ads separately and mail them individually to theater owners, trying to get them to book that specific movie. Sometimes those books and magazines are separated and the ads, which now greatly resemble the individually printed trade ads, are sold individually. The trade ad offered here was removed from a yearbook or magazine. It can be framed and displayed (but many trade ads have different images on each side, so one must choose which side to display if it is framed!). Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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