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Auction History Result 4j1503 FORBIDDEN PLANET candid 8x10.25 still 1956 Anne Francis dictates letter for Robby the Robot! Date Sold 6/6/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Forbidden Planet, the classic 1956 Fred McLeod Wilcox science fiction (sci-fi) outer space robot monster thriller ("Amazing!"; "In Cinemascope and Color"; "Based on the story by Irving Block & Allen Adler"; very loosely adapted from William Shakespeare's "The Tempest"; about space men who journey to a distant planet, and they find that all the members of the original expedition have died, except for one man and his daughter, and they have discovered the secrets of a long lost civilization called "The Krell", which dwarfs anything humans have ever discovered, but there is a very dark side to those secrets that is soon revealed) starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman (as the cook, who was put in the movie for comic relief), Robby the Robot (billed as "Introducing Robby the Robot"), James Drury, and Frankie Darro (who was inside the robot suit until he was fired early in the production for showing up inebriated and almost damaging the expensive prop). Note that after Robby the Robot appeared in this movie, he had another movie role in "The Invisible Boy", and then he appeared in a slightly modified version as the robot in TV's "Lost in Space". On November 21, 2017, the original "Robby the Robot" was auctioned, and it sold for $5.375 million! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that in 2017, we auctioned a different example of this still (which sold for $545!), and that one had a snipe on the back that explained that "a girl's best friend is Robby the Robot" and that he is "a combination chauffeur, power plant for a space jeep, cook, butler, maid, hair-dresser, costume designer, dress-maker, carpenter, 'man' of all work, dishwasher, protector, and companion. He speaks 183 languages and not only prepares the meals, but makes the raw products as well." Finally, the snipe on that previous one we sold also noted that Anne Francis is dictating a letter to Robby the Robot (who surprisingly is using an old fashioned typewriter that is on top of an old fashioned ladder). THIS still does not have that snipe on the back, but it of course applies to this still as well! Condition: good to very good. There is slight darkening down the left edge, mostly only affecting the blank border, and there are some creases around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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