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CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result t105 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON movie title lobby card '54 classic! Date Sold 10/31/2006Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Creature from the Black Lagoon, the classic 1954 Jack Arnold Universal 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) science fiction (sci-fi) monster horror thriller ("Sheer, stark terror grips you in underwater... 3-D"; "Terrifying monster of the ages raging with pent-up passions! ...with every man his mortal enemy ...and a woman's beauty his prey!"; "Centuries of passion pent up in his savage heart!"; "Amazing! Startling! Shocking!"; "Monster from a million years ago!"; "Clawing Monster From A Lost Age strikes from the Amazon's forbidden depths!"; "Thrills beyond compare in... 3D") starring Richard Carlson, Julie Adams (billed as "Julia Adams"), Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, Whit Bissell, Ricou Browning (who played the Gill Man underwater), Ben Chapman (who played the Gill Man on land), and Bernie Gozier. Note that the inspiration for this movie began when William Alland (the producer of this movie) was playing an acting role in "Citizen Kane", and he learned of a myth about half-man half-fish creatures in the Amazon. He wrote notes for a story called "The Sea Monster" in 1951, combining the above myth with the "Beauty and the Beast" story. In December 1952, a 59-page treatment called "Black Lagoon" was written by Maurice Zimm and Leo Lieberman wrote a script based on that treatment in early 1953, but Universal turned it down. After this script was written, a new script was written by Arthur Ross and Harry Essex, and that was the script that was used for the movie as filmed, and the last great Universal monster was created! Finally, note that the wonderful creature costume was created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in this movie, but the head of the makeup department did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to this movie and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good to fine. There is a diagonal crease in the bottom right of the card, running through the lower part of the inset image (the bottom of the girl's shirt and the man's wrist). This crease is truly barely noticeable from the front. There is a diagonal crease in the top right blank corner. There was a 1" x 3" piece of paper tape on the back of the middle of the top border (which was not put on the card for any restoration purpose). Someone tried to remove the tape, and they removed some of the top part of it, and saw that they had removed some of the surface paper underneath, and so only removed a 1/2" square section of the top of the tape (on the back of the center of the top blank border). That made the paper in the center of the top blank border "thin", because there is surface paper missing from the back of it, and it is slightly noticeable from the front (but this is really nitpicking!). There are two super tiny tears in the lower part of the left blank border. There is the slightest of creases and darkening on the very outer edge of a couple places of the borders. All of the above are truly very minor, and other than the above, the card is in really excellent condition! The card is clearly not in the slightest faded (as so many Creature cards are), and other than the above piece of tape on the back, it has no other tape whatsoever on the front or back, and has never had any other restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades 
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