When hoarding pays off...

Susan Moore11 April 2012
The Weekender

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for exclusive competitions, offers and theatre ticket deals

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.

Carole Lombard may have been the only woman Clark Gable ever really loved, but here we find her eerily purple-browed and all but phosphorescent, poring over her crystal ball in the 1933 Paramount Picture Supernatural.

The one-sheet poster, an example of which has never before taken a bow at auction, is the cover lot for a sale of predominantly horror and science-fiction movie posters that embraces everything from the truly scary - Boris Karloff as The Mummy - to the sublimely silly - Rex Reason in The Creature Walks Among Us. It comes from a collection of 65 retrieved from a movie theatre in Jerome, Arizona, because its manager, the vendor's father, could not bring himself to throw them away. Smart move.

Vintage Film Posters, Tue 27 Mar, Christie's South Kensington, 85 Old Brompton Road, SW7 (020-7581 7611)

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in