Movie Poster Collecting: Mervyn LeRoy

Sunday, October 22, 2017

Quo Vadis 1951 Robert Taylor Yugoslavian poster

Quo Vadis (1951) - (Robert Taylor) Yugoslavian poster

This is a 19" x 27" Yugoslavian poster for the 1951 Mervyn LeRoy film Quo Vadis based on the 1896 novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, screenplay by John Lee Mahin, S.N. Behrman and Sonya Levien and starring Robert Taylor as Marcus Vinicius. Plot summary: In the First Century Marcus Vinicius is a Roman general who falls in love with a Christian woman named Lygia [Deborah Kerr]. In the midst of other momentous historical events dramatized in the film, Marcus gradually falls in love with both Lygia and her religion.

Cast and crew: Mervyn LeRoy, John Lee Mahin, S.N. Behrman, Sonya Levien, Henryk Sienkiewicz (1896 novel), Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie, Abraham Sofaer, Marina Berti, Buddy Baer, Felix Aylmer, Nora Swinburne, Ralph Truman, Norman Wooland, Peter Miles, Geoffrey Dunn

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Always in My Heart دائما في قلبي (dir: Salah Abouseif) - (1945) Egyptian one-sheet

Always in My Heart (1945) - (Dir: Salah Abouseif) Egyptian one-sheet

This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Fathy al-Khadri for the 1945 Salah Abouseif film Always in My Heart starring Aqila Rateb as Seniyya. This film is an adaptation of the 1940 Mervyn LeRoy film Waterloo Bridge starring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh. Like the prototype, this film portrays a tragic heroine who falls in love with a sailor, but unlike the prototype, in this Egyptian variation, an important early effort by the great realist/socialist director Salah Abouseif, the heroine is an orphan rather than a ballerina. The themes of despair, prostitution and separated lovers are common to both.

Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Imad Hamdi, Aqila Ratib, Ahmed Khorshed, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Zouzou Nabil, Said Abu Bakr, Dawlad Abiad, Mervyn LeRoy, Mostafa Al-Sayed, El Sayed Bedeir, Zeinat Sedki, Mansi Fahmi, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Hassan Kamel