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Auction History Result 9k104 WEST SIDE STORY pre-awards 1sh 1961 pre-Awards one-sheet with classic Joseph Caroff art! Date Sold 9/7/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Folded One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) West Side Story, the classic 1961 Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (winners of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) New York City romantic dance musical ("The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures"; "'Best Picture' Winner of 10 Academy Awards 1961"; "Based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince" winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; with a sentimental script by Ernest Lehman, which borrows heavily from "Romeo & Juliet"; based on a book by Arthur Laurents) starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and George Chakiris (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film). The wonderful music was by Leonard Bernstein and the equally wonderful lyrics were by Stephen Sondheim. Note that Natalie Wood's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (who had also dubbed The King and I and The Sound of Music), and Richard Beymer's singing was dubbed as well. Recordings exist of some of Natalie Wood's singing, and she absolutely would have been fine, but Hollywood demands perfection! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Joseph Caroff Important Added Info: Note that the classic art for this classic movie poster has long and often been misidentified as being by Saul Bass, but it is actually by Joseph Caroff (actually, Saul Bass had nothing to do with the artwork for the first release, but Bob Peak did do some artwork, but it was completely different)! Also note that this poster is the first release one-sheet, which was from before the movie won the Best Picture Academy Award. After it won the Academy Awards, some of these posters had snipes added to the top left area, and other posters were printed that look the same, but have Academy Award information printed on them, and a 1962 copyright date. This first release pre-awards one-sheet with no snipe is far less common than the post-Academy Awards one-sheets. Condition: very good. Most examples of this "pre-Academy Awards" one-sheet have either a snipe glued on that references the Oscars (or the remnants of such a snipe), and they often have fading of the red color (because there is so much of it and it fades so easily). But this example of the poster has none of these defects. Other than pinholes in the corners and 3" of separation at the bottom of the vertical fold, with the tiniest of separation at the crossfolds (someone put a piece of tape on the back of the bottom crossfold), the poster is in nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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