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Auction History Result 2s0494 BUS STOP English double crown 1956 best close-up Chantrell art of sexy Marilyn Monroe! Date Sold 8/7/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded English Double Crown Movie Poster (DC; measures 20" x 30" [51 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) Bus Stop, the 1956 Joshua Logan Phoenix Arizona romantic comedy ("The coming of age of Bo Decker... And the girl who made him a man!"; "Give this cowboy enough rope and he'll land Marilyn Monroe"; "You got an idea a woman should be treated like an animal!"; "Based on the stage play by William Inge"; about a cowboy who meets a beautiful showgirl, and has the fantasy that she will go to his ranch to live with him, so that she can escape her tawdry life, but she has other ideas) starring Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; billed as "Introducing Hollywood's newest hunk of man"), Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Hope Lange, Robert Bray, Eileen Heckart, and Henry Slate. Note that this film had been intended to star Elvis and Marilyn but Elvis' manager prevented this from happening, and that Don Murray, who was a success on Broadway, but was yet to make his first movie, stepped in to Elvis' shoes! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Tom William Chantrell Important Added Info: Note that almost every collector agrees that this poster is not only the best poster image on this title, but also that it is one of the best Marilyn posters period. We have only previously auctioned five examples of this poster in all our years of auctioning, and the last time we auctioned it, it sold for $1,750 (and the last time we sold an unbacked example of this poster was in 2009)! Condition: very good to fine. The poster was never folded. It has a very tiny tear in the center of the bottom blank border and in the bottom of the left blank border. There is very slight darkening down the left edge of the left blank border. Otherwise this rare poster is in really nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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