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Poster for "His Majesty Bunker Bean"



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Title: Poster for "His Majesty Bunker Bean"
Description: Color lithograph poster. On a green field, the top portion of the poster shows the lead character wearing a tall crown. Beneath this a caption reads “Wm. H. Currie Presents/Taylor Holmes/ in/ "His Majesty Bunker Bean”/ by Lee Wilson Dodd/From the Stories by Harry Leon Wilson."

Image ID: 89867
Creation
Date:
1916 
Creator
Name:
Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name:
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information:
Dodd based the play on the novel by Leon and wrote it as a vehicle for Holmes (1878-1959). It ran for just 72 performances at the Astor Theatre, but was made into films in 1918 (with Jack Pickford), again in 1925 (directed by Harry Beaumont), and lastly in 1936 (with Lucille Ball).
Subjects: Theaters
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

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