Splendor in the Grass 1961 Natalie Wood Yugoslavian poster

Splendor in the Grass (1961) - (Natalie Wood) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19.5"x 28" Yugoslavian poster for the 1961 Elia Kazan film Splendor in the Grass written by William Inge and starring Natalie Wood as Wilma Dean Loomis. Plot summary: It is 1928 in southeast Kansas and Bud Stamper [Warren Beatty] and Deanie Loomis are high school kids in love. Their relationship is a thing of beauty but social pressures and unmet expectations from family and school are a constant trial.

Cast and crew: Natalie Wood, Elia Kazan, William Inge, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Fred Stewart, Joanna Roos, John McGovern, Jan Norris, Martine Bartlett, Gary Lockwood, Sandy Dennis, Crystal Field, Maria Adams

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Splendor in the Grass (1961) - (Natalie Wood) Italian four-sheet

Splendor in the Grass (1961) - (Natalie Wood) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster for the 1961 Elia Kazan film Splendor in the Grass based on a story by William Inge and starring Natalie Wood as Deanie Loomis. Plot summary: The setting is a high school in southeast Kansas in 1928 where the two seniors Bud Stamper [Warren Beatty] and Deanie Loomis are in love. Like all love stories, this one has major complications, the ones that are peculiar to young folks who have not yet established themselves in the world and are still trying to please others who do know where they belong.

Cast and crew: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Elia Kazan, William Inge, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie, Barbara Loden, Zohra Lampert, Fred Stewart, Joanna Roos, John McGovern, Jan Norris, Martine Bartlett, Gary Lockwood, Sandy Dennis, Crystal Field, Maria Adams

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Baby Doll R1960s

Baby Doll (R1960s) - (Carroll Baker) 9 French Lobby Cards

Nine French lobby cards from a 1960s rerelease of the 1956 Elia Kazan film "Baby Doll" starring Karl Malden, Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker.

Cast and Crew: Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Karl Malden, Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker, Mildred Dunnock, Lonny Chapman, Eades hogue, Noah Williamson

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Baby Doll Lobby Card Set (1956)

This is a lobby card set from the 1956 Elia Kazan film Baby Doll with screenplay by Tennessee Williams and performances by Karl Malden, Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach. It is my favorite lobby card set. It has everything: beautiful photography of riveting scenes from inspired performances, and simple, elegant typography.

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Two 1947 Antisemitism Films

Crossfire (1947) - (Robert Young)

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) - (Gregory Peck)

Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire was an adaption from a novel by Richard Brooks which was originally about the murder of a soldier by fellow soldiers because he was gay. The gay issue was not acceptable to the film industry in that year, so in the screeenplay the murdered solder was made to be a Jew instead. The social machinations of antisemitism are not carefully explored for various reasons, but primarily because this was mostly a low-budget murder mystery.

Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement got the Academy Award for best picture that year. It was deliberately written in the original novel by Laura Z. Hobson as a story about antisemitism in which Gregory Peck as a journalist takes on the assignment of writing about the subject and tells his story with insights he gained by posing as a Jew himself. Many facets of the insidious phenomenon of antisemitism in American society are illustrated in this film. The "gentleman's agreement" was apparently some kind of tacit understanding that Jews would be kept out of certain areas of American life. Dean Stockwell does a great job here at age eleven as Tommy Green, the son of Peck's character Philip Schuyler Green.

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