Movie Poster Collecting: Barbara Stanwyck

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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) - (Barbara Stanwyck) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 27" x 43" Argentine one-sheet for the 1950 Robert Siodmak film The File on Thelma Jordon based on story by Marty Holland, screenplay by Ketti Frings and starring Barbara Stanwyck as Thelma Jordon. This Argentine poster is directly derived from the design of the US one-sheet. Plot summary: Thelma Jordon is a clever criminal who has affairs with accomplices who can help conceal the evidence of her crimes. Assistant District Attorney Cleve Marshall [Wendell Corey] is the first to fall into to this scheme.

Cast and crew: Robert Siodmak, Marty Holland, Ketti Frings, Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelley, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges, Richard Rober, Minor Watson, Barry Kelley, Kasey Rogers, Basil Ruysdael, Jane Novak, Gertrude Hoffman, Harry Antrim, Kate Drain Lawson, Theresa Harris

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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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Friday, December 26, 2014

The Violent Men (1955) - (Glenn Ford) Italian four-sheet

This is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster using art by Alfredo Capitani to promote the 1955 Rudolph Mate film The Violent Men based on a novel by Donald Hamilton, screenplay by Harry Kleiner and starring Glenn Ford as John Parrish. Plot summary: John Parrish is an ex-officer in the Union army who decides to fight it out with a local rancher after one of his hired hands is murdered.

Cast and crew: "Rudolph Mate, Alfredo Capitani, Harry Kleiner, Donald Hamilton, Glenn Ford, Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn, Warner Anderson, Basil Ruysdael, Lita Milan, Richard Jaeckel, James Westerfield, Jack Kelly, Willis Bouchey, Harry Shannon

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Saturday, July 20, 2013

There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - (Barbara Stanwyck)

There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - (Barbara Stanwyck) US one-sheet

This is a US one-sheet poster for the 1956 Douglas Sirk film There's Always Tomorrow starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred McMurray. The film tells the story of a married man with children (Fred McMurray) caught in the daily grind of a manufacturing job, who falls in love with a former employee (Barbara Stanwyck) who seems to be in a less restricted situation but who is also attracted to him. Nothing is resolved by his fanciful escape attempt and all the dramatis personae are unfulfilled and frustrated.

Cast and crew: Douglas Sirk, Bernard C. Schoenfeld, Ursula Parrott, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William reynolds, Pat Crowley, Gigi Perreau, Jane Darwell, Race Gentry, Myrna Hansen, Judy Nugent, Paul Smith, Helen Kleeb, Jane Howard, Frances Mercer, Sheila Bromley