1960s DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER POSTER "Bad Blonde"

We love this charming original French film poster for 60s re-release of Disney classic Bambi. A wonderfully softly illustrated poster in fabulous condit...

Original Japanese Movie poster for the 1969 French New Wave film directed by Costa-Gavras and staring Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant. ...

We love the artwork that features on the French 60s re-release for sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still,superior to the original ...

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

Original US movie poster for Walt Disney's 1942 Classic Animation. This poster was designed and used for the 1957 rerelease of the film.

Original US movie poster for the 1956 musical staring Big Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. The film was a remake of The Philadelphia Story...