1950s Posters
Period: 1950s
Color: Black
The Unholy Wife / Furia Infernale
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for The Unholy Wife 1957.
This film noir was directed and produced by John Farrow, and stars Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon and Beulah Bondi. Dors plays Phyllis Hochen, a gold-digger who cheats on her wealthy husband, and then plans to murder him in order to inherit his fortune. The story is told in a series of flashbacks from her prison cell...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage British Railways Modernisation Plan Poster Progress Train Depot
Located in London, GB
Original vintage rail travel advertising poster – Progress Every week British Railways Modernisation Plan goes further ahead – featuring great artwork by the notable British artist Terence Tenison Cuneo (1907-1996) for the cover of Progress, the Unilever magazine Winter issue 1957-1958, depicting workers in a train depot...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
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Paper
They Made Me a Fugitive / Fugitivo
Located in London, GB
Original Spanish film poster for the 1947 Film Noir They Made Me a Fugitive.
This film was directed Alberto Cavalcanti and starred Trevor Howard and Sall...
Category
Spanish Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1953 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P.Sougy, Le Hanneton 'Scarab Beetle'
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1953 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – Le Hanneton (Scarab Beetle) S46. In the 1940s Paul Sougy, a gifted illustrator and curator of natural history at the Orleans Scien...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1953 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P.Sougy, La Sauterelle Verte Org Int
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1953 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – La Sauterelle Verte Org Int (Bush Cricket) S45
1953 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – La Sauterelle Verte Org Int (B...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1953 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart - P.Sougy - Sauterelle 'Grasshopper' S45
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1953 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart – P.Sougy – Sauterelle (Grasshopper) S452
1953 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart – P.Sougy – Saute...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, Moelle Epiniere 'Spinal Cord' S9
Located in Hook, Hampshire
Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, Moelle Epiniere (Spinal Cord) S9
Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, Moelle Epiniere (Spinal Cord) S9. In the 1940s Paul So...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1957 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P.Sougy, Digestif, S7 '2'
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1957 Dr Auzoux French Educational chart – P.Sougy – Digestif – S7 (2)
1957 Dr Auzoux French Educational chart – P.Sougy – Digestif (Digesti...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff 1950 French Scene Card
Located in New York, NY
Original 1950 French scene card for the film Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff directed by Charles Barton with Bud Abbott / Lou Co...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
'The Last Bridge' 1956 Polish A1 Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1956 Polish A1 poster by Konstanty Sopocko for the film ‘The Last Bridge’ (Die letzte Brucke) directed by Helmut Kautner with Maria Schell / Bernhard Wicki / Barbara Rutting / Carl Mohner...
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Polish Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1956 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P.Sougy, La Seiche 'Cuttlefish' S53
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1956 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – La Seiche (Cuttlefish) S53
1956 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – La Seiche (Cuttlefish) S53. In the 1940s Paul Soug...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
My Daughter Joy, Edward G. Robinson
Located in London, GB
Original black and white photo of Edward G. Robinson working on location at the famous Cova Club on the Italian Riviera he borrows the Rumba band's maracas wh...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
1952 Dr Auzoux French Educational Chart, P.Sougy, Le Rein 'Kidney' S41
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1952 Dr Auzoux French educational chart – P.Sougy – Le Rein (Kidney) S41. In the 1940s Paul Sougy, a gifted illustrator and curator of natural history at the Orleans Science Museum, ...
Category
French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Reprisal / Rappresaglia
Located in London, GB
Original Italian posters for the 1956 Western Reprisal starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr, Kathryn Grant.
The film was directed by George Sherman.
Thi...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Wide Blue Road 1957 Italian Fotobusta Film Poster
Located in New York, NY
Original 1957 Italian fotobusta poster for the film The Wide Blue Road (La grande strada azzurra) directed by Gillo Pontecorvo / Maleno Malenotti with Yves Montand / Alida Valli...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
1953 Dr. Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, La Sauterelle Verte
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1953 Dr. Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, La Sauterelle Verte, set of 44
1953 Dr. Auzoux French Educational Chart, P. Sougy, La Sau...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Movie Poster Love In The Afternoon Gary Cooper & Audrey Hepburn
By Saul Bass
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the romantic comedy film - Love in the Afternoon - starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier a...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Earth Versus the Flying Saucers / La Terra Contro I Dischi Volanti
Located in London, GB
Original Italian posters for the 1956 science fiction film Earth Versus the Flying Saucers.
This wonderful poster is by the renowned Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester...
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Midcentury Original Vintage French Poster, 'Froid Philips' by Darigo
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Midcentury original vintage French poster, 'Froid Philips' by Darigo
Artist
Darigo
Year
1950
Dimensions:
160 x 120 cm
...
Category
French International Style Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Located in London, GB
Original British trade advertisement for the 1951 Comedy, Horror Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff.
The film was directed by Char...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Man with the Golden Arm" Original US Film Poster
By Saul Bass
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster.
Saul Bass was born in New York. Bass was a rotund, jovial character. After studying at the Art Students League and graduating from Brooklyn College, he moved west at the age of 26, and is credited with introducing an East Coast sensibility to marketing. He saw advertising as a means for funding his passion for the movies, and after 6 years working with a number of agencies, he finally had the funds to establish his own. All this time, he was forging ever-closer links with the film industry, and in 1954 this led to a commission from Otto Preminger to design the poster for Carmen Jones. The following year the director invited the artist to work on The Man With The Golden Arm...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage London Electricity Board Poster Power Of London Piccadilly Eros
Located in London, GB
Original vintage London Electricity Board poster entitled The Power of London, Electricity featuring fantastic artwork from the painting by Ruskin Spear (1911-1990) showing Piccadill...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Jean Cocteau Original Vintage Stone Lithograph Custom Framed Mid Century Modern
By Jean Cocteau, Mourlot
Located in North Miami, FL
This original and authentic Mid-Century Modern French stone lithograph designed by Jean Cocteau from the 1950s is for a ceramic exhibition of his pieces at Galerie Pont de Arts in th...
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French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Wood, Paper
"The Wrong Man" Original British Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for Alfred Hitchcock's 1957 film.
This Hitchcock drama stars Henry Fonda and Vera Miles, and is based on a true story of an innocent man charged with a ...
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English Vintage 1950s Posters
Original Vintage Poster Trans World Airlines TWA London Royal Guard Travel Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster for London issued by Trans World Airlines / TWA featuring a great design by the notable American artist David Klein...
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Defiant Ones" 1958 U.S. Scene Card
Located in New York, NY
Original 1958 U.S. scene card for the film The Defiant Ones directed by Stanley Kramer with Tony Curtis / Sidney Poitier / Theodore Bikel / Charles McGraw...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"Some like It Hot" Original US Production Stilla
Located in London, GB
Original US production still for the 1959 Billy Wilder comedy voted the best comedy of all time. Staring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis.
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
"The Devil's Hairpin / La Curva Del Diavolo" Film Poster
By Marcello Colizzi
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the The Devil's Hairpin 1957.
This film was written, directed and stars Cornel Wilde. The film is about a retired racing driver who is tempted back ...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
"La Notti Bianche / White Nights" Original Italian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for the 1957 drama, romance. Directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais.
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Original Vintage 1950s French Government Tourism Poster 'Notre-Dame'
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage 1950s French Government Tourism Poster 'Notre-Dame'
This is an original vintage travel tourism poster, it was printed and published ...
Category
French Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Other
Niagara
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese press sheet poster for the 1953 film “Niagara”.
This American film noir was directed by Henry Hathaway, and stars Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters. It...
Category
Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
The Dam Busters
Located in London, GB
Original British film poster for The Dam Busters 1955. This British epic war film was directed by Michael Anderson, and stars Richard Todd and Michael Redg...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"The Night My Number Came Up" 1955 British Scene Card
Located in New York, NY
Original 1955 British scene card for the film The Night My Number Came Up directed by Leslie Norman with Michael Redgrave / Sheila Sim / Alexander Knox / Denholm Elliott. Very good-f...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Babette Goes to War 1959 German Scene Card
Located in New York, NY
Original 1959 German scene card for. Very good-fine condition, pinholes. Please note: the size is stated in inches and the actual size can vary by an inc...
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German Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage French Release Film Poster The Wild Blue Yonder WWII Bomber B29
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for the French release of the 1951 film about the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber training and air raids on Japan during WWII - The Wild Blue Yonder / ...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
"3:10 To Yuma, " Original US Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster for the tense 1957 western staring Glen Ford and Van Heflin. The film was remade 50 years later in 2007 with Russell Crowe playing Glenn ford's role.
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
Le Salaire De La Peur / The Wages of Fear Movie Poster
By Robert Leveque
Located in London, GB
Original French Style B movie poster for Henri-Georges Clouzot incredible, 1953 Thriller starring Yves Montand, Charles Vanel.
The art work on this be...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
I Confess / La Loi Du Silence
By Rene Peron
Located in London, GB
Original French movie poster for, Alfred Hitchcock's, 1953 film noir starring Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter
The art work on this beautiful French poster is by Rene Peron (1904-1972)...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
"Sirocco / Damasco 25" Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian film poster for the 1951 film Sirocco.
This poster was designed by the great Italian poster artist Anselmo Ballester (1897-1974) The film was released in Italy one ...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Sweet Smell of Success
Located in London, GB
Original 1955 British film poster.
This American film noir was directed by Alexander Mackendrick. The film tells the story of a ruthless newspaper columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lan...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, Two Men in Manhattan
Located in London, GB
Original French Movie poster for Jean-Pierre Melville's French New Wave film staring Pierre Grasset, Michele Bailly, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall. The...
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French Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Pair of framed posters after Mark Rothko--Ukraine/Russia 1950s
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful framed pair of posters after Mark Rothko from Ukraine/Russia--1950s
Category
Ukrainian Mid-Century Modern Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
War of the Worlds / La Guerra dei Mondi
Located in London, GB
Original Italian posters for the 1953 science fiction film War of the Worlds.
This artwork on this poster was created for the films 1960s re-...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Original Vintage Soviet Science Fiction Movie Poster "The Secret of Two Oceans"
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet film poster for a science fiction movie "The Secret of Two Oceans" - about enemy agents who set up secret facilities in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to sink ships with the super submarine Pioneer sent to find the source of these mysterious sinking’s but, unknown to the captain, his chief engineer is one of the enemy. Fantastic image showing a underwater fight scene between a man in a futuristic sci-fi black scuba diving suit...
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Russian Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
La Notti Bianche / White Nights Original Italian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster for the 1957 drama, romance. Directed by Luchino Visconti and starring Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais.
Category
Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
"All That Heaven Allows, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British Movie poster for the 1955 Drama / Romance Directed by Douglas Sirk and staring Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman. Hudson plays a young Landscape d...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Journey into Fear, Terrore Sul Mar Nero, Original Italian Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian movie poster designed and used for the films first Italian release 1950 after World War II. It had been shown in the US in 1943. The film stared Joseph Cotten...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
Big Heat
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for Fritz Lang's 1953 Film Noir staring Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame.
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
"Funny Face" Original Japanese Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster. This design was created only for this first release Japanese poster. It is exceptionally rare and is the only exa...
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
"Il Mostro della Via Morgue, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Italian Movie poster for the 1954 Horror film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Karl Malden and Claude Dauphin. The film is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short stor...
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Italian Vintage 1950s Posters
"Roaring Twenties" Original Japanese Movie Poster
Located in London, GB
Original Japanese movie poster for Classic 1939 Gangster film staring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Priscilla Lane. Directed by Raoul Walsh. ...
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Japanese Vintage 1950s Posters
"Room at the Top, " Film Poster
Located in London, GB
Original British Movie poster, The vast majority of British posters are 30 x 40
inches as this is the size of the display cases outside UK cinemas.
this rare British one sheet 41 ...
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British Vintage 1950s Posters
Large English Hillman Car Print, Framed Under Glass
Located in Austin, TX
A vintage Hillman Autos car dealer's advertising promotional full color print showroom poster, framed under glass in original oak frame, titled: Hillma...
Category
English Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Glass, Oak, Paper, Wood
Original Vintage Poster Atomic Energy For Peace USSR Exhibition Leipzig Fair
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Exhibition of the USSR Atomic Energy For Peace / Ausstellung der USSR Atomenergie Fur Den Frieden held from 1...
Category
German Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
High Society
Located in London, GB
Original US movie poster for the 1956 musical High Society.
This wonderful musical was a remake of the 1941 film The Philadelphia Story, starring F...
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American Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Reach for the Sky
Located in London, GB
Original British color synopses for the film Reach for the Sky, 1956
This film was a Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having los...
Category
British Vintage 1950s Posters
Materials
Paper
Runaway Daughters
Located in London, GB
Original US film poster.
For the 1956 Exploitation film Runaway Daughters, starring Marla English, Anna Sten and John Litel.
The film was directed by Edward L. Cahn.
Category
American Vintage 1950s Posters
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