Rare Huge Original 1951 Marilyn Monroe In Red Swimsuit Movie Poster ~ Love Nest!

Description: Large, rare original 1951 movie poster for “Love Nest” w/ Marilyn Monroe. It was property of the National Screen Service (NSS is no longer in business) and was supposed to be returned to them immediately after the theater run.Measures approx. 41 3/4 x 29 1/4 inches overall. Mounted poster can’t be rolled. It’ll ship via UPS due to the large size.NSS Number is: 51/534. The 51 is for 1951, and it was the 534th movie assigned a stock number for that year. I don’t think this poster was returned. It’s from a collection that had numerous similarly mounted posters with colorful borders, likely the doing of one specific theater to fit / look a certain way for their marquee.The poster being mounted (glued down to board), not being all there per trimmed off edges, having foxing spots, etc., isn’t ideal. However, in my 25 years of hunting around, I’ve never found an original Marilyn movie poster, so despite it’s flaws, I’m thrilled to have this to offer for sale.My friend told me that this poster and the others from the collection had belonged to the auctioneer Ron Rhodes, so that would be the provenance. There were some other cool posters in the collection, but this was the best, I thought, since Marilyn is so iconic.When “Love Nest” was made, Marilyn was emerging in Hollywood. Ezra Goodman of the Los Angeles Daily News called her "one of the brightest up-and-coming [actresses]" for Love Nest. Marilyn’s popularity with audiences was also growing: she received several thousand fan letters a week, and was declared "Miss Cheesecake of 1951" by the army newspaper Stars and Stripes, reflecting the preferences of soldiers in the Korean War.Because the bathing suit that Marilyn wears in the film was so risqué (for the time) and caused such a commotion on the set, director Joseph M. Newman had to make it a closed set while she was filming (!).“Love Nest” marked the entrance of I.A.L Diamond into Marilyn’s professional life. This post-World War II comedy was the first of four scripts he wrote for Marilyn, the others being: “Let’s Make It Legal,” “Monkey Business” and “Some Like It Hot” (with his writing partner Billy Wilder).The way I see it, Marilyn was a s*x symbol, this poster portrays her in that way and pushes the imagery as far as they probably could at the time, and so that’s part of the desirability factor on this piece. CHECK MY FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE! *** 20+ years of happy customers on eBay *** Please see my other eBay listings for more great items.Message me to arrange for combined shipping on multiple purchases.

Price: 495 USD

Location: Pitman, New Jersey

End Time: 2023-11-03T20:27:16.000Z

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