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Auction History Result

6h109 TWELVE CHAIRS Italian 2p '69 Sharon Tate, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica!

Date Sold 1/22/2013
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Italian Two-Panel (known in Italy as a "4 Fogli") Movie Poster (2p; measures 55" x 78" [140 x 198 cm]) (Learn More)

Una Su 13 (released in English-speaking countries as "The Twelve Chairs" and "12 + 1"'), the 1969 Nicolas Gessner & Luciano Lucignani Italian inheritance screwball comedy ("A jet set trip to... London.. Paris... Rome.. New York"; "Another city, another love, another chance..."; "Make a date to see Sharon Tate in her last movie"; "Finally released to the public!"; about a man who inherits twelve chairs, but after he sells them to different people, he discovers one had important documents hidden in it, and he must try to get back all the chairs to find the important one) starring Sharon Tate, Vittorio Gassman, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Mylene Demongeot, Tim Brooke-Taylor, and Lionel Jeffries. Note that this was Sharon Tate's final movie, because she was tragically murdered by Charles Manson's followers shortly after the movie was completed (in fact, she was pregnant throughout the filming, and they needed to take great lengths while filming to disguise her belly). IMDb says that this Italian movie was released in the U.S. in 1970, but we can only find newspaper ads from Canada, many of which have the bad taste to promote this silly comedy as "her last film" and "her smiling eyes haunt us, not her tragic fate". After Mel Brooks had his great success with "The Producers" in 1967, he was looking for a new movie to make, and he surely knew of this movie (either this version or the many versions that preceded it), and he adapted it in 1970, as "The Twelve Chairs", with Ron Moody and Frank Langella. Note that there were an amazing 25 (at least) different movie and TV adaptations based on this same novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov, with the first in 1933. At first, there were 13 chairs, but at some point, they lowered that to 12, and the remaining movie adaptations had 12! Surely this must be close to some sort of record for most adaptations for a non-classic novel!
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this Italian movie! Also note that this Italian two-panel was printed in 2 sections designed to overlap.

Condition: good to very good.
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