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Auction History Result 5f860 STAGECOACH other company LC '39 close up of John Wayne with rifle & Andy Devine driving coach! Date Sold 5/26/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Other Company Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Stagecoach, the classic 1939 John Ford (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) cowboy western ("A powerful story of 9 strange people"; "Excitement That Rises To A Fever Pitch - and never lets you go!"; "A Strange Frontier Incident of 1885"; "2 Women on a desperate journey with 7 Strange Men"; "Nine oddly assorted strangers start out by stagecoach for Lordsburg, New Mexico. Each has his own personal reasons for wanting to get there. Then strange things begin to happen. The telegraph is mysteriously cut... the way station burned to the ground. Danger grows steadily more menacing... until... as convention breaks down, the lives of the travelers are tangled together... you live with them this strange adventure... tense, full of action... deeply moving..."; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about a stagecoach that is carrying a group of people across the plains through Apache territory and personal differences) starring Claire Trevor (as Dallas, the "marked" woman), John Wayne (as The Ringo Kid), Andy Devine (as a babbling driver), John Carradine (as a gambling "gentleman"), Thomas Mitchell (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as a drunk doctor), Louise Platt (as a pregnant upper class lady), George Bancroft (as a sheriff), Donald Meek (as a whiskey salesman), Berton Churchill, Tim Holt, and Tom Tyler (in a small but key role). Note that John Wayne had received the starring role in "The Big Trail" in 1930, and it had done poorly, and his starring days seemed to be over! In the mid-1930s, he successfully starred in a series of low budget B-westerns, but was not considered for major productions. But in 1939, when Gary Cooper turned down the lead in "Stagecoach", John Ford took a chance on John Wayne, but the studio thought so little of him that he wasn't pictured on the one-sheet or most of the advertising! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that John Wayne was not considered a truly major star when this movie was made, and United Artists not only created a very striking one-sheet that does not picture Wayne at all, but they also only put him on two of the scene cards, and neither has all that good an image of him. This other company card (see below for what that means) has a really great close image of John Wayne and Andy Devine smiling at each other while driving the stagecoach, a scene that does not appear in the regular lobby card set! Note that this was printed by the "other company". This was a company in the Midwest that from roughly 1936 to roughly 1941 printed its own one-sheets and lobby card sets (and a very few inserts and half-sheets) for three major studio movies (Warner Brothers, Paramount and United Artists, but no other studios). The posters and lobby cards are from the original release of the movie, and almost always have completely different artwork from the regular studio release. They never have the name of the releasing studio on the poster or any of the lobby cards. Sometimes, "other company" posters or lobby cards have images that are the equal of those from the regular studio release posters or lobby cards! Condition: good. There are many tiny staple holes around the edges of the card. There are some light partial horizontal creases scattered in the card, as though someone once started to roll the card and then thought better of it. There was a piece of brown paper tape on the back of the center 7" of the top of the card that was mostly removed and there was paper tape on the back of the top and bottom center of the card, but it was not put there for a restoration purpose. There is a tiny tape repair on the back of the top left corner of the card. There was a piece of tape on the back of the bottom right of the card (it was a 6" strip of 1" tape running 2" from the bottom of the back of the card and it was removed, which caused surface paper loss on the back of the card, but it does not affect the front of the card). Learn More about condition grades 
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