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Auction History Result 2b0522 RIO RITA WC 1942 Bud Abbott & Lou Costello with sexy dancer Eros Volusia, rare! Date Sold 5/10/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Rio Rita, the 1942 S. Sylvan Simon south-of-the-border romantic musical screwball comedy ("The Daffy-Dilly Jubilee of Mirth and Music!"; "Special Material by John Grant"; about not very bright entertainers at a Mexican resort, and they meet Nazi agents who try to trick them into smuggling contraband into the U.S.) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello (Abbott and Costello), Kathryn Grayson (in the title role as Rita Winslow), John Carroll, Patricia Dane, Tom Conway, Peter Whitney, Eros Volusia (a sexy Brazilian dancer; as herself), and Joan Valerie. Note that the contract that Abbott & Costello had signed with Universal allowed them to make one movie a year at a different studio, and this movie was made with MGM (they made two other MGM movies in 1944 and 1945). 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 we have only previously auctioned three examples of this window card, and the last one was 15 years ago (all three of those examples were trimmed)! Note that the poster has no bottom border, but it has NOT been trimmed (all of the window cards on this title were printed with the bottom of the image flush with the bottom of the poster). Since these window cards have no bottom blank white border, some people mistakenly assume they have been trimmed, but they have NOT! They measure 14" x 22", and this is exactly how they were originally printed. This is something MGM was experimenting with at the time, but they abandoned it (perhaps because theater owners thought they were receiving trimmed window cards!). Note that this window card is from a remarkable collection of 24 Abbott & Costello window cards (in 24 separate auctions) that a VERY dedicated collector assembled over many years! He has now consigned them to us, so this is a rare opportunity to purchase any of these window cards at one time, and of course, if one was dedicated enough, one could purchase all 24 and duplicate what took him decades to accomplish in a single day! Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades 
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