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Auction History Result t301 HITTING A NEW HIGH one-sheet movie poster '37 sexy Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Edward Everett Horton Date Sold 5/15/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Hitting a New High, the 1937 Raoul Walsh New York City Africa opera singing musical romantic screwball comedy (about a girl who is a singer with a band, but she wants to be an opera singer, and an agent comes up with an angle to get her there, which is to have her go to Africa and pretend to be "Oogahunga, the Bird-Girl", a girl raised in the jungle who literally sings like a bird, and then they bring her back to the U.S.!) starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Eduardo Ciannelli, and Lucille Ball. Note that Lily Pons was a real life opera star who was drafted into movies after the great success of Jeanette MacDonald, and for her first one, she was given "I Dream Too Much" in 1935, with music by Jerome Kern, who had composed the music for the hit movie "Roberta" the year before. But she only appeared in three more movies between 1935 and 1937, and then returned to opera singing. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There are several tape repairs on the back of the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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