This is a 13" x 27.5" Italian locandina poster for the 1965 Richard
Quine film How to Murder Your Wife written by George Axelrod
and starring Jack Lemmon as Stanley Ford. Plot summary: Stanley Ford is
a successful syndicated cartoonist who finds himself married through a
misunderstanding to an Italian woman [Virna Lisi] who does not speak
English.
Cast and crew: Richard Quine, George Axelrod, Jack Lemmon, Virna
Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor, Sidney Blackmer,
Max Showalter, Jack Albertson, Mary Wickes, Alan Hewitt, Barry Kelly,
William Bryant, Edward Faulkner, Lauren Gilbert
This is a 19" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1960 Billy Wilder
film The Apartment based on a screenplay by Billy Wilder and
I.A. L. Diamond and starring Shirley MacLaine as Fran Kubelik. Plot
summary: C.C. Baxter [Jack Lemmon] has been working in a Manhattan
insurance office for almost four years. He often works late to leave
his Upper West Side apartment available for the extramarital affairs
of a few well-placed company executives.
Cast and crew: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Shirley
MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Way Walston, Jack Kruschen, David Lewis,
Hope Holiday, Joan Shawlee, Naomi Stevens, Johnny Seven, Joyce
Jameson, Willard Waterman, David White, Edie Adams
This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1982 Costa-Gavras
film Missing based on the 1978 Thomas Hauser book The
Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice with screenplay
by Costa-Gavras and Donald Stewart and starring Jack Lemmon as Edmund
Horman. Plot summary: The story is based on actual events during the
1973 military coup d'etat in Chile ousting President Salvador Allende
when journalist Charles Horman [John Shea] was killed, and afterwards
when Charles's Father Edmund Horman goes to Chile with his son's wife
Beth [Sissy Spacek] to look for his missing son. This film was banned
in Chile during Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and both the film and
Thomas Hauser's book were the subject of a defamation of character
lawsuit by former US Ambassador Nathaniel Davis; the lawsuit did not
succeed, leading to the film's rerelease in 2006. The film won an
academy award for best writing of a screenplay based on another
medium. It also won the Palm d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and
Jack Lemmon won the prize there for best actor.
Cast and crew: Costa-Gavras, Thomas Hauser, Donald Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi, David Clennon, Richard Venture, Jerry Hardin, Richard Bradford, Joe Regalbuto, Keith Szarabajka, John Doolittle, Janice Rule, Ward Costello, Hansford Rowe, Tina Romero, Richard Whiting
