Rare Pro Arts Farrah Fawcett Poster 1977
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This is a extremely RARE Farrah Fawcett 1977 poster. Made by the Pro Arts company from Medina, Ohio.
You are bidding on a new, factory sealed poster not the opened one pictured here.
I searched the web and this poster can not be found anywhere. The bottom of poster is printed with 20-201 Super Farrah 1977 Pro Arts Inc. Medina, Ohio, U.S.A.
Why is this poster called Super Farrah?
Good question!
Not only is Farrah, Super! but this poster is a Over Size Format!
This 28"x41" poster is super. An unusually large and unusually beautiful!
The Pro Arts company is no longer in business and was known for legal trouble, bootlegging, etc. see below.
The only site that even listed this poster is POSTER WORLD. Their part number for this poster is PA20-201 Super Farrah. They are "Out of Stock" and even when they had it they wanted $25.00 for this poster. I think this makes my poster worth at least $45.00 or even more! Some
of ours have sold in excess of $50.00 !
I have been told that this was the third Farrah poster released, with the ultra famous RED bathing suit being number one.
Farrah Fawcett, the fresh faced woman from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the early 1960s, she was voted the "Beautiful Woman" by her high school colleagues. In the late 1960s, she had her first break in guest-starring roles in shows such as "I Dream of Jeannie", "The Flying Nun" and "The Partridge Family". Then in 1968, she dated actor Lee Majors, and the couple were married on July 28, 1973. Shortly after, Majors starred in his series "The Six Million Dollar Man" and Farrah guest-starred in several episodes. As her career took off, she posed in her red bathing suit for a poster, and it sold a staggering 8,000,000 plus copies.
After the poster was released, producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg starred her in the Crime/Drama Megahit show "Charlie's Angels". Farrah received $10,000 an episode, and when it started to take off, Lee wanted her home by 6:30 pm to have dinner on the table. That proves to me that Lee is not as smart as I thought he was, I mean would you want Farrah home to cook?
Remember the company named Pro Arts, or what the company did? They produced the famous FARRAH FAWCETT Red Bathing Suit Poster.
Pro Arts, Inc., also known as "The Poster People," began in 1967 as printers of anti-war posters, Pro Arts became the largest poster company in the world! In 1977, with the printing of the Farrah Fawcett poster, Pro Arts posters were on display world wide as just about every male in the world had Farrah on the wall.
From 1977 to 1979, Pro arts produced over 5,000 unique posters with famous poster personalities like Cheryl Tiegs, Cheryl Ladd, Jaclyn Smith, Magnum, P.I., Strawberry Shortcake, John Belushi as the Samurai Warrior, Gilda Radner as Roseanne Roseannadana, and Dan Akroyd as the Cone- heads.
In 1977, with the death of Elvis, Pro Arts began a legal battle to eliminate the "right of publicity after death" that ultimately was won by Pro Arts, only to have Pro Arts lose over $1,500,000 in the process. With heavy legal fees Pro Arts was forced to file for bankruptcy in 1981.
In all this mess of court and legal actions a few Farrah posters somehow wound up in storage in a suburb of Detroit. Someone didn't pay his or her storage bill and years later I now have what I think is a UNRELEASED Farrah poster.
I may be wrong, and I am sure someone will let me know, but I have NOT been able to find this poster on any Farrah web site. Was this the last poster produced by Pro Arts during their legal battles? Was this Farrah poster ever released in quantity? While lawyers battled did and few company assets get sent north to possibly be sold later? Who knows, who cares, I bet you do if you love Farrah.
Not only is this a great poster but it can help you get into shape. Build muscle tone, and get some great eye candy all with just one bid.
Bid on this rare find now.
Search the web for Farrah and Pro Arts for more information on this rare poster. There are several stories and books on this interesting mid-west story of success and failure.
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