Original 20th Century Fox One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Harmon Jones sport biography, THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (1952)—starring Dan Dailey, Joanne Dru, and Richard Hylton. This film is the story of Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Dan Dailey successfully captures the colorful personality of Dizzy Dean, the son of a sharecropper with little education. When a foot injury lead to his eventual decline as a star player, Dean learned how to make his zany charm work for him in a new career as baseball radio commentator. This is one of the prettier baseball-related U.S. film posters. Dan Dailey is shown as pitcher on the poster in his St. Louis Cardinals uniform and also as the sportscaster who became a legend in the world of TV. This is a film which is fun for the whole family. Such a sunny poster would look great anywhere. Very fine condition.
