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Auction History Result 7b1208 JOE LOUIS STORY 1/2sh 1953 art of heavyweight champion boxer throwing punch, ultra rare! Date Sold 1/5/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Half-Sheet Movie Poster (1/2sh; measures 22" x 28" [56 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) The Joe Louis Story, the 1953 Robert Gordon black African American boxing sports biographical melodrama ("America's Greatness Was In His Fists... The Screen's Big Story Is In His Heart!"; "The triumphs, the let-downs, the love he searched for! It's all here in the real-life adventure of the fighter... the man ... the legend they called the 'Brown Bomber'!"; "Powerful...as his battering fists! Thrilling... As his fighting heart! Great... As his never-to-be-forgotten story!"; "Told With A Boldness That Will Rock You!"; "From behind the smashing victories comes this story of a guy who fought his way to the top - to find a place deep in the heart of a girl - and all America!"; "The picture that bares his life... His love... And the wicked whispers that flamed with his legend!"; "See Joe punch his way to the top!"; "It's all here - the victories he won - the woman he lost - the wild, lurid stories they built around him!"; "Nothing ever hit the screen like... The Joe Louis Story"; "See Primo Carnera, Max Baer, Max Schmeling, Jim Braddock, Rocky Marciano"; "The sensational story of America's Champ of Champs!"; "The stormy picture that bares his thrilling life"; "What they said about him... was it true? He was owned by an underworld syndicate! He had a 'secret' manager! He squandered and gambled away large sums of money! He has become a playboy with dozens of girl friends! He has been duped by his 'friends'!"; "produced by Stirling Silliphant") starring Paul Stewart ("The newspaperman. His typewriter followed Joe's career!"), Hilda Simms ("The wife he loved and lost"), James Edwards ("'Chappie' His trainer and closest friend"), John Marley, Dotts Johnson, and Coley Wallace (in the title role; billed as "introducing Coley Wallace as Joe Louis") NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is an extremely rare poster. We have never auctioned one in all our years of auctioning! Note also that this poster has never been machine folded! Some pre-1970 half-sheet posters were machine folded twice horizontally at the poster exchange, while some were not. It can be difficult to find an unfolded example of many pre-1970 half-sheet posters (note that most post-1970 half-sheets were NOT machine folded, so they are pretty much only found unfolded, and therefore this does not apply to those half-sheets). Condition: good. The poster has much paper loss at lower left and some paper loss at left and lower right. There are a few tears of varying lengths around the edges (one is large at center right) and most of them are repaired with tape from the back. The image area itself is mostly in pretty nice condition and after proper restoration the very rare poster will display well, but bear in mind the poster's condition and the cost of restoration before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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