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Auction History Result 9j357 DR. DRACULA'S LIVING NIGHTMARES Aust special poster '50s art of sexy Donna Haynes & monsters Date Sold 7/20/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Australian Special Movie Poster (measures 30" x 40" [76 x 102 cm]) (Learn More) Dr. Dracula's Living Nightmare Show, the 1950s campy stage horror show ("First time here... you dare not look into his eyes!"; "On stage! In Person!"; "Beauties at the mercy of inhuman monsters"; "In the audience"; "All new and never dared before!"; "Alive!"; "In person"; "Watch out when the lights go out!"; "Super scary!"; "See Dazzling Donna Haynes 6Ft. 4ins. of 'Hex-appeal' plus on screen Super Horror Thriller"; "First time here... do not judge by anything seen before!") featuring art of monsters and spooks. This item was promoting a 1940s & 1950s traveling stage show that appeared in movie theaters before the "giant horror show on our screen". "Spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s (with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Note that a knowledgeable collector points out that this spook show was created by a magician and stage performer named Card Mondor, who toured all over the world (along with his wife Donna Haynes). Near the end of his spook show career he was based on Australia, where he also owned a magic shop and was involved in Australian TV and film distribution (which may explain how art from posters for this show ended up on teaser posters for the 1963 film Dementia 13). If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There is water staining in the artwork background at lower right, at lower left in the area of Haynes' credit, and around the edges of the poster. There are some smudges and minor creases scattered throughout the poster, but they are not very distracting. The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition and I would imagine most collectors could display this really cool poster as it is, but if one chose to have it restored the water stains could easily be removed during the linenbacking process, after which it would look fantastic! Learn More about condition grades 
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