FOXES OF HARROW

Original British 20 inch x 60 inch Quad Poster for the 1947 John M. Stahl Drama THE FOXES OF HARROW, based on the novel by Frank Yerby and starring Rex Harrison, Maureen O’Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen, Vanessa Brown, Patricia Medina, Gene Lockhart, Hugo Haas and Denis Hoey.

Twentieth Century-Fox Records of the Legal Department at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library states that the studio paid author Frank Yerby $150,000 for the motion picture rights to The Foxes of Harrow, which was his first novel. A December 1947 Ebony article called the figure “the biggest bonanza ever pocketed by a colored writer” and stated that the book was “the first Negro-authored novel ever bought by a Hollywood studio.”

Printed by Stafford & Co. Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham and London No. 8580A

The poster is in very good folded condition with a 6 inch tear through the lower image of Harrison and slight fold separation.