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Auction History Result 6t767 MISTER ROBERTS 8x10.25 still '55 classic image of Cagney telling Henry Fonda You did it! Date Sold 3/23/2014 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) Mister Roberts, the classic 1955 John Ford & Mervyn LeRoy World War II (WWII) military Naval Navy cargo ship comedy melodrama ("The six-year stage smash on the screen!"; "For pleasure way above and beyond the ordinary - see 'Mister Roberts'"; "Warner Bros happily bring to the screen the happiest play that ever played!"; "The most loved, most laughed-with play of our day-even greater on the screen!"; "Based on the play by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a cargo ship in World War II where the crew never sees action, and the chief cargo officer wants desperately to be transferred to the front lines, but the sadistic captain of the ship refuses to let him do so to further his own ambitions) starring Henry Fonda (in the title role as "the original Mister Roberts"), James Cagney ("as the Captain"), William Powell ("as Doc"), Jack Lemmon (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; "as Ensign Pulver"; in his fourth movie role!), Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond, and Phil Carey. Note that Henry Fonda had a massive hit playing in this role on Broadway, and he agreed to star in this film adaptation, which was also very successful! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm]. Also note that this still appears in every way to be original U.S. release EXCEPT that there is one very tiny line of French type in the lower right. It reads, "IMPRIME AUX ETATS-UNIS D'AMERIQUE". A collector has told us that he believes this means the still was printed for use in areas that included French-speaking parts of Canada, but that it WAS printed in the U.S., and that makes complete sense to us! So it is an original still from 1955, but it was printed partially for use in French-speaking Canada. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that not only does our current auction of 999 stills represent the absolute finest selection we have ever had in terms of quality of image and film, but it also represents the finest CONDITION group of stills we have ever had! Half of the stills are graded as being in "very good to fine" condition (which is our highest grade for vintage stills), but we were very strict on this, because otherwise, perhaps two thirds or three quarters of the stills would have received this grade! We downgraded stills to "very good" for pretty minor defects, and many of these might have received our "very good to fine" grade in the past. And the half of the stills that ARE in very good to fine condition would likely be graded "mint" by any other auction! This is the finest group of stills I have ever seen, and I can only hope to equal it someday! Condition: very good to fine. The still is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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