Original MGM One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Vincente Minnelli musical comedy, KISMET (1955)—starring Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, and Vic Damone. This story is based on a play originally written by Edward Knobloch around 1910 and used by popular Broadway character actor Ottis Skinner for many years. Skinner even did a silent film version of the play. Later, the song writing team of Bob Wright and Chet Forrest composed a score based on the melodies of Alexander Borodin. The Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld theater in New York City on December 3, 1953 and ran for 583 performances and won the 1954 Tony Award for Best Musical. Eventually the musical came to the attention of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM, and he chose Minnelli to direct this opulent production. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine plus condition. A lovely example of the poster.

Original MGM One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Vincente Minnelli musical comedy, KISMET (1955)—starring Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, and Vic Damone. This story is based on a play originally written by Edward Knobloch around 1910 and used by popular Broadway character actor Ottis Skinner for many years. Skinner even did a silent film version of the play. Later, the song writing team of Bob Wright and Chet Forrest composed a score based on the melodies of Alexander Borodin. The Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld theater in New York City on December 3, 1953 and ran for 583 performances and won the 1954 Tony Award for Best Musical. Eventually the musical came to the attention of the Arthur Freed unit at MGM, and he chose Minnelli to direct this opulent production. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition, with only some minor fold distresses.

Original MGM 1962 Re-Release B&W Still Photographs (8×10) for the Richard Thorpe biography, THE GREAT CARUSO (1951)‚ starring Mario Lanza and Ann Blyth. Like Caruso before him, Lanza became the tenor superstar of his generation, and MGM rightly believed that he would be the best person to play the great Italian tenor. The film was the biggest hit of 1951 and broke all box office records as Radio City Music Hall that year. These three re-release B&W stills are in fine plus condition.

Original 20th Century-Fox One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Roy Ward Baker romantic fantasy, I’LL NEVER FORGET YOU (1951) starring Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, and Dennis Price. A British production, the film was known in the UK by the title, THE HOUSE IN THE SQUARE (1951). Time travel, mystery and romance is the engine of this story about an American nuclear scientist, played by Tyrone Power living in London after the war. Power is a brooding, moody, and depressed type until, while strolling in a rainstorm, is struck by lightning and transported magically back in time to the eighteenth century. His mood improves and so does his love life when he meets the beautiful Ann Blyth. No spoilers here, but this story was derived from a play by John L Balderston. Balderston was an interesting writer who contributed to some of the great Universal Horror classics: DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY. This story was later adapted as a Broadway musical, ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, which was later filmed as a vehicle for Barbra Streisand. The time travel territory is one that has been explored in films often – BACK TO THE FUTURE, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, and TIME AFTER TIME to name a few. And also, a little bit of Twain here, as in A CONNECTICUT YANKEE. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition with only a small fold separation.

Original Warner Brothers One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the film noir classic, MILDRED PIERCE (1945) directed by Michael Curtiz (of CASABLANCA fame) and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth, and Eve Arden. After her husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce becomes independent and successful, but she never gets the approval and respect that she deserves from her spoiled and vile daughter Veda. Everything about this film was excellent—a stunning cast, excellent direction from Curtiz, beautiful cinematography by Ernest Haller, and a wonderful score by Max Steiner. Joan Crawford deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Actress, and both Eve Arden and Ann Blyth were nominated for Best Supporting Actress. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Screenplay. As a rather bleak look at the exploitation a woman working in a man’s world can expect, this film was refreshingly frank for the time. This original one sheet poster is linen-backed and in very fine condition with some restoration repairing fold separations.