Original Belgian Poster (14×22) for the Jean Negulesco drama, JOHNNY BELINDA (1948) starring Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford, and Agnes Moorehead. This is the story of a dedicated young doctor (Ayres) who opens his practice in an isolated fishing village on Cape Breton Island off the Nova Scotia coast. When he meets Belinda (Wyman), a young deaf mute callously dismissed by family and neighbors as “the dummy,” he devotes himself to teaching the girl sign language and lip-reading. But Belinda’s optimism is crushed when a brutish local fisherman rapes her. The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards—including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Wyman won the Oscar for Best Actress, becoming the first actor or actress to win the award since the silent era without uttering a single word. This original Belgian poster is linen-backed and in near mint condition.

This is an original 20th Century-Fox One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Otto Preminger film noir, WHIRLPOOL (1949) starring Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer, and Charles Bickford. This film is part psychological drama and part film noir. The beautiful wife (Tierney) of a famous psychoanalyst Dr. William Sutton (Conte) gets caught stealing an expensive pin from a department store. An infamous astrologer David Korvo (Ferrer) comes to her aid and uses hypnosis to make her an unconscious party to an elaborate scheme involving murder. All of the acting performances are good, especially Tierney who does an outstanding job at portraying both the vulnerability and desperation of her character; indeed, the actress used the film as a mini “comeback” after a two-year absence. The black and white cinematography and use of the camera are very good. This original one sheet poster is in very fine condition.

This is an original RKO One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Jean Renoir film-noir, THE WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947) starring Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, and Charles Bickford. This performance by Bennett is one of her best as the self-described “tramp” embroiled in a marriage with Bickford kept together by hate, as much as love. Bickford is also excellent as the blinded, bitter, and jealous artist. The seamy, violent, and sado-masochistic relationship between Bennett and Bickford is fascinating to watch, and gives this film noir a special twist. This original one sheet poster is in fine plus condition.