Movie Poster Collecting: Ava Gardner

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Friday, September 2, 2016

Mogambo (1953) - (Clark Gable) US three-sheet

This is a 41" x 81" US two-piece three-sheet poster for the 1953 John Ford film Mogambo based on the 1928 Wilson Collison play Red Dust, screenplay by John Lee Mahin and starring Clark Gable as Victor Marswell. Plot summary: At a remote African outpost big game hunter Victor Marswell is unexpectedly caught up in relationships with two different women, Linda Nordley, [Grace Kelly] the wife of David Nordley, [Donald Sinden] a client, and Eloise Kelly, [Ava Gardner] who has come to Africa looking for a maharajah friend who does not show.

Cast and crew: John Lee Mahin, Wilson Collison, Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, John Ford, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea, Samburu, Wagenia, Bahaya, M'Beti

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) - (Steve Martin) US one-sheet

This is a US 27" x 40' one-sheet poster for the 1982 Carl Reiner film Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid based on a story by Carl Reiner, George Gipe and Steve Martin and starring Steve Martin as private investigator Rigby Reardon. Plot summary: The dialogue and events of the film are assembled in a collage to make a new story from 18 vintage noir films, to which it both pays tribute and spoof. With the help of Phillip Marlowe [Humphrey Bogart] Reardon investigates the cause of the mysterious auto crash that has killed John Hay Forrest [George Gaynes]; he is hired to do this by Forrest's daughter Juliet [Rachel Ward], with whom he also falls in love. Rigby's affection for Rachel threatens to derail his professional objectivity as a criminal plot slowly emerges to destroy the world with deadly cheese mold.

Csst and crew: Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, George Gipe, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, George Gaynes, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Veronica Lake, Bette Davis, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold

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Sunday, October 12, 2014

The Cassandra Crossing (1976) - (Sophia Loren) US 40x60

The Cassandre Crossing (1976) - (Sophia Loren) US 40x60 film poster

This is a 40x60 US poster designed to promote the 1976 George P. Cosmatos film The Casandra Crossing based on a story by Robert Katz and George P. Cosmatos and starring Sophia Loren. Plot summary: A European train becomes a mobile quarantine whose infected passengers are not allowed to get off, at the cost of their lives.

Cast and crew: George P. Cosmatos, Robert Katz, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson, Lionel Stander, Ann Turkel, Ingrid Thulin, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Lou Castel, John Phillip Law, Ray Lovelock, Alida Valli, Stefano Patrizi