Movie Poster Collecting: Robert Taylor

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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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Saturday, February 27, 2016

A House Is Not a Home (1964) - (Shelly Winters) US one-sheet

A House Is Not a Home (1964) - (Shelley Winters) US one-sheet poster

This is a 27" x 41" US one-sheet poster for the 1964 Russell Rouse film A House Is Not a Home based on Polly Adler's 1953 novel of the same title, written by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse and starring Shelly Winters as Polly Adler. Plot summary: Polly Adler was a legendary madam during the Roaring Twenties. Once an immigrant worker, she became friend and confidante to various persons of significance in both the underworld and the upper class. This film tells her story. It is also Raquel Welch's debut performance in a role as a call girl.

Cast and crew: Russell Rouse, Polly Adler, Clarence Greene, Shelley Winters, Raquel Welch, Broderick Crawford, Cesar Romero, Robert Taylor, Mickey Shaughnessy, Kaye Ballard, Ralph Taeger, Broderick Crawford, Mickey Shaughnessy, Lisa Seagram, Meri Welles, Jesse White, Connie Gilchrist, Constance Dane, Allyson Ames, Lewis Charles, Steve Peck

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Monday, April 13, 2015

The Fighting Lady (1944) - (dir: Edward Steichen) Argentine one-sheet

This is a 29" x 43" Argentine for the 1944 Edward Steichen U.S. Navy film The Fighting Lady with narration written by John S. Martin and Eugene Ling and narrated in English by Lieutenant Robert Taylor (Charles Boyer did the French narration). Plot summary: Without calling the ship anything other than its movie name The Fighting Lady, this film chronicles the events from July 1943 to June 1944 in the life of aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in its first operations following its commissioning in 1943. This film won the 1944 Academy Award for best documentary feature. The Argentine poster design is derived directly from the US one-sheet.

Cast and crew: Edward Steichen, Eugene Ling, William Wyler, John S. Martin, Charles Boyer, Louis de Rochemont, Robert Taylor, Dixie Kiefer, Eugene Ling, Joseph J. Clark, G.E. we, John S. McCain, John Meehan, E.T. Stover