Movie Poster Collecting: Thelma Ritter

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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Rear Window (R1960s) - (James Stewart) Indian 30x40

This is a 30" x 40" Indian poster for a 1960s rerelease of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window based on the 1942 Cornell Woolrich short story "It Had to Be Murder," screenplay by John Michael Hayes and starring James Stewart as L. B. Jeffries. Plot summary: Photographer L. B. Jeffries is confined to his New York apartment with his leg in a cast after breaking it while photographing a car race. To pass the time he watches his neighbors through their apartment windows opening on the adjoining courtyard; he begins to suspect Lars Thorwald [Raymond Burr] has murdered his wife.

Cast and crew: James Stewart, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr, Thelma Ritter, Cornell Woolrich, John Michael Hayes, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, Sara Berner, Frank Cady, Jassylyn Fax, Rand Harper, Irene Winston, Havis Davenport

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Friday, December 19, 2014

The Misfits (1961) - (Marilyn Monroe) Italian four-sheet

Pictured is a two-piece 55" x 77" Italian four-sheet poster for the 1961 John Huston film The Misfits based on a screenplay by Arthur Miller and starring Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Tabler. Plot summary: As she gradually succumbs to the determined advances of Gay Langland [Clark Gable], Roslyn Tabler becomes upset when she learns some wild horses (called "misfits") are to be sold for dogfood.

Cast and crew: John Huston, Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe. Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach, James Barton, Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood

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Saturday, December 13, 2014

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) - (Burt Lancaster) Italian four-sheet

Shown here is a 55" x 77" two-piece Italian four-sheet poster made to promote the 1962 John Frankenheimer and Charles Crighton film Birdman of Alcatraz based on a book by Thomas E. Gaddis, a screenplay by Guy Trosper and starring Burt Lancaster as Robert Franklin Stroud, the birdman. Plot summary: The year is 1912. Robert Stroud is a convicted murderer in Leavenworth prison who murders a guard and is sentenced to be hung. President Woodrow Wilson's clemency saves his life, but he is placed in permanent solitary confinement by Warden Harvey Shoemaker [Karl Malden]. It is after these events that Stroud's legendary career as the prison birdman begins; he finds a fallen sparrow in the prison yard and decides to raise it.

Cast and crew: John Frankenheimer, Charles Crichton, Guy Trosper, Thomas E. Gaddis, Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field, Telly Savalas, Edmond O'Brien, Hugh Marlowe, Whit Bissell, Crahan Denton, James Westerfield