Movie Poster Collecting: Hedy Lamarr

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Thursday, September 14, 2017

Samson and Delilah 1949 Victor Mature Italian locandina

Samson and Delilah (1949) - (Victor Mature) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1949 Cecil B. Demille film Samson and Delilah based on the 1928 Vladimir Jabotinsky novel Samson, screenplay by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Frederic M. Frank and starring Victor Mature as Samson. Plot summary: The Israelites are enslaved by the Philistines, but Samson, one of the strongest of the Israelites, falls in love with a Philistine woman named Semadar [Angela Lansbury] and then later with her sister Delilah [Hedy Lamarr]. Delilah wants to betray Samson by getting him to reveal the secret of his strength.

Cast and crew: Vladimir Jabotinsky (1928 novel Samson), Jesse Lasky Jr., Fredric M. Frank, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering, Fay Holden, Julia Faye, Russ Tamblyn, William Farnum, Lane Chandler, Moroni Olsen, Francis McDonald, William Davis, John Miljan

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Sins of Madeleine (1947) - (Hedy Lamarr) US lobby card

This is an 11" x 14" undated rerelease US lobby card for the 1947 Robert Stevenson film Sins of Madeleine AKA Dishonored Lady based on the 1930 play Dishonored Lady by Edward Sheldon and Margaret Ayer, screenplay by Edmund H. North and starring Hedy Lamarr as Madeleine Damien. Plot summary: Madeleine Damien is a fashion editor at a slick Manhattan magazine called Boulevard. The pressures of work cause her to attempt suicide, after which she seeks the help of a psychiatrist. On his advice she quits her job, moves into a smaller flat, adopts a new identity, takes up new interests and acquires new friends.

Cast and crew: Robert Stevenson, Edward Sheldon, Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan, Morris Carnovsky, Natalie Schafer, Paul Cavanaugh, Douglass Dumbrille, Margaret Hamilton

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Algiers (1938) - (Charles Boyer) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine one-sheet poster for the 1938 John Cromwell film Algiers based on screenplay by John Howard Lawson amd starring Charles Boyer as Pepe Le Moko. Plot summary: In the famous Casbah lives Pepe Le Moko, whose fortune in stolen jewels from France has made him a local kingpin. The French police want to find him and arrest him, but he always eludes them. When a beautiful visitor from Paris named Gaby [Hedy Lamarr] comes into his life, Pepe is smitten and his mistress Ines [Sigrid Gurie] is enraged.

Cast and crew: John Cromwell, John Howard Lawson, James M. Cain, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Kingsford, Joseph Calleia, Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart, Nina Koshetz, Paul Harvey, Stanley Fields, Johnny Downs, Charles D. Brown, Robert Greig, Leonid Kinskey, Joan Woodbury