This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina promotional poster for the 1951
Vincente Minnelli film An American in Paris based on story and
screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, songs by George and Ira Gershwin and
starring Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan. Plot summary: Jerry Mulligan
is an American painter and song and dance man struggling to survive in
Paris while juggling relationships with two different women.
Cast and crew: Vincente Minnelli, Alan Jay Lerner, Gene Kelly,
Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, George
Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
This is a 36" x 46" German two-sheet poster designed by Bob Peak for
the 1964 George Cukor film My Fair Lady based a the 1913
play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, adapted for the stage
for musical production in 1938 by Lerner and Lowe, book and screenplay
by Alan Jay Lerner and starring Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle.
Plot summary: Phonetics professor Henry Higgins [Rex Harrison] takes
on the task of teaching proper English and making presentable to
society cockney flower seller Eliza Doolittle. Eliza turns out to be
a good student who is soon able to pass as a person with royal blood.
After a dispute with Higgins, Eliza tries unsuccessfully to return to
her old life but finds she is now a misfit there. Higgins now wants
her back! According to boxofficemojo.com, Mami Nixon dubbed Hepburn's
voice in all her songs except the first one, Just You Wait.
Cast and crew: Rex Harrison, Bob Peak, Stanley Holloway, Audrey Hepburn, George Cukor, George Bernard Shaw, Alan Jay Lerner, Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, John Holland, Mami Nixon