Movie Poster Collecting: Peggy Ashcroft

Sunday, March 4, 2018

The Nun's Story 1959 Audrey Hepburn US one-sheet

The Nun's Story (1959) - (Audrey Hepburn) US one-sheet

This is a 27" x 41" original US one-sheet poster for the 1959 Fred Zinneman film The Nun's Story based on the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathyrn Hulme, screenplay by Robert Anderson and starring Audrey Hepburn as Sister Luke/Gabrielle van der Mal. Plot summary: In 1930 in Belgium the daughter of a prominent surgeon decides to become a nun in the Congo to work with people afflicted by tropical diseases. She remains in Africa for years before returning to Belgium during the war.

Cast and crew: Fred Zinneman, Kathryn Hulme (1956 novel first edition), Robert Anderson, Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight, Patricia Collinge, Rosalie Crutchley, Ruth White, Barbara O'Neil, Margaret Phillips, Patricia Bosworth, Colleen Dewhurst, Stephen Murray

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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Three into Two Won't Go (1969) - (Rod Steiger) Belgian poster

This is a 14" x 21" Belgian poster for the 1969 Peter Hall film Three into Two Won't Go AKA Auto-Stop Girl based on the 1969 Andrea Newman novel of the same title, written by Edna O'Brien and starring Rod Steiger as Steve Howard. Plot summary: Sales manager Steve Howard has an affair with young hitchhiker Ella Patterson [Judy Geeson] even though he is married. There is tension later when Ella moves into one of the rooms in his house.

Cast and crew: Peter Hall, Andrea Newmewman, Edna O'Brien, Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Judy Geeson, Peggy Ashcroft, Paul Rogers, Julian Blaustein, Lyn Farleigh, Elizabeth Spriggs, Sheila Allen, Diana Webster