Movie Poster Collecting: Sidney Sheldon

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Jumbo (1962) - (Doris Day) US three-sheet

This is a US 41" x 81" two-piece folded three-sheet movie poster for the 1962 Charles Walters film Jumbo based on a book by Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur, screenplay by Sidney Sheldon and starring Doris Day as Kitty Wonder. Plot summary: At the beginning of the 20th Century Anthony Wonder [Jimmy Durante] owns and operates the Wonder Circus and performs in it as a clown. He has a gambling addiction which keeps the circus in debt, and its survival is in doubt because it is having trouble keeping its unpaid employees on the job. Its star attraction is its trained elephant, Jumbo.

Cast and crew: Doris Day, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye, Stephen Boyd, Dean Jagger, Sidney Sheldon, Billy Rose, Roger Eden, Charles Walters, Joe Pasternak, Joseph Waring, Lynn Wood, Charles Watts, James Chandler, Robert Burton, Wilson Wood, Norman Leavitt, Grady Sutton, Ron Henon, The Carlisles

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Other Side of Midnight (1977) - (Marie-France Pisier) US 40x60

The Other Side of Midnight (1977) - (Marie-France Pisier) US 40x60 film poster

This is a US 40x60 poster made to promote the 1977 Charles Jarrett film The Other Side of Midnight based on a novel by Sidney Sheldon starring Marie-France Pisier as Noelle Page. Plot summary: Noelle Page is a successful actress who cannot shake the memory of her World War II love affair with American pilot Larry Douglas [John Beck]. When she finally succeeds in reigniting their former passion she is undone in a scheme devised by Larry's new wife Catherine Alexander [Susan Sarandon].

Cast and crew: Charles Jarrott, Herman Raucher, Sidney Sheldon, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Galager, Christian Marquand, Michael Lerner, Sorrell Booke, Antony Ponzini, Louis Zorich, Charles Cioffi, Lilyan Chauvin, George Keymas, Lidia Kristen, Denise DeMirjian