A Slight Case of Larceny – Set of 8 Lobby Cards – 1953 (9494-9501)

Description

These lobby cards are 68 years old. They are in very good condition. Lobby card #1 has a small stain in the right border; if the card was framed it would be covered.
This is a complete set of 8 lobby cards for the 1953 movie “A Slight Case of Larceny,” which starred Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken and Elaine Stewart.
Each lobby card measures approximately 11 x 14 inches and is printed on heavy-stock paper.
A Slight Case of Larceny was a 1953 comedy starring Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Marilyn Erskine, Douglas Fowley and Robert Burton. It was released on June 5, 1953, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The movie has been rated 6.2 on a 1-10 scale.
Mickey Rooney should be a familiar name to any film buff.
Actor Edward Vincent (Eddie) Bracken (February 7, 1915–November 14, 2002) became a Hollywood comedy legend with lead performances in the films Hail the Conquering Hero and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek in 1944, both of which have been preserved by the National Film Registry. During this era, he also had success on Broadway, with performances in plays like Too Many Girls (1939).
Elaine Stewart was a model/actress who was a LIFE magazine cover girl. She had a supporting role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), as Lila, a starlet who has a romantic fling with a producer played by Kirk Douglas. She was featured as Julie, the love interest of Richard Widmark in Take the High Ground! (1953) and co-starred with Mickey Rooney in the 1953 comedy, A Slight Case of Larceny.
She appeared in other films, such as Brigadoon, Night Passage, Code Two, The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond, and The Adventures of Hajji Baba. Stewart had a small but key role, as Anne Boleyn, in 1953's Young Bess. She co-starred with Jeff Chandler in the film noir The Tattered Dress (1957), with Victor Mature in the western Escort West (1958) and shared top billing with John Derek in a 1958 adventure film, High Hell, before turning to television.
Marilyn Erskine (born April 24, 1926) is an actress who started performing at the age of three on radio, and then appeared in radio, theater, film and television roles from the 1920s through the 1970s.