Original MGM 1962 Re-Release Three Sheet Poster (41×81) for the Richard Thorpe literary epic, IVANHOE (1952) starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders. This successful period picture was one of the top four moneymakers of 1952, grossing over $6.2 million. It was filmed on location in Great Britain with a mixed cast of American and British actors. Robert Taylor was handsome and chivalrous in the title role, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine provided glamour and grace. George Sanders is outstanding as the villainous Norman knight Bois Gilbert. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture. A great score by Miklos Rozsa as well. MGM re-released the film in 1962 and this re-release three sheet poster is in very fine condition.

Original Belgian poster (trimmed to 13×21) for the Charles Marquis Warren film FLIGHT TO TANGIERS (1953) starring Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, and Robert Douglas. This was originally an action-packed 3D movie produced during the first attempt by the studios to create a unique movie-going magnet designed to pull viewers away from their newly acquired TV sets. This Belgian poster was trimmed to 13×21 and is in very good plus condition with minor edge wear, creased. Image area is fine plus, with bright colors.

Original Paramount Pictures 3-D Style B Half Sheet Poster (22×28) for the Charles Marquis Warren crime drama, FLIGHT TO TANGIER (1953) starring Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, and Robert Douglas. This folded half sheet has some defects and is classed in good to very good condition.

Original British Set of 8 Front of House Cards (8×10) for the Billy Wilder musical comedy, THE EMPEROR WALTZ (1948) starring Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, and Richard Haydn. The story revolves around traveling salesman Virgil Smith (Crosby), who wants to sell gramophones in pre-war Austria-Hungry. He especially wants to sell one to Emperor Franz Joseph (Haydn). Wilder wanted the film to be a biting satire of the court of Franz Joseph, but Crosby had a lot of influence with the Paramount executives and insisted on the box office confectionary that the film ultimately became. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Musical Score for Victor Young. This original set of British front of house cards very from fine plus to very fine condition.

Original Set of 8 British Front of House Cards (8×10) for the Richard Thorpe literary epic, IVANHOE (1952) starring Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders. This successful epic was one of the top four moneymakers of 1952, grossing over $6.2 million. It was filmed on location in Great Britain with a mixed cast of American and British actors. Robert Taylor was handsome and chivalrous in the title role, while Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Fontaine provided glamour and grace. George Sanders is outstanding as the villainous Norman knight Bois Gilbert. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Picture. This original set of British front of house cards are in fine plus to very fine condition.

Original MGM Three Sheet Poster (41.25×78) for the George Cukor dramatic comedy, THE WOMEN (1939) starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell. Anita Loos adapted the screenplay from the popular Broadway play by Clare Booth Luce. The play opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater on September 7, 1937 and played for 666 performances. The story revolves around wealthy Mary Haines (Shearer), who is totally unaware that her husband is having an affair with shop girl Crystal Allen (Crawford). There are over 130 roles in the movie, all played by women. Furthermore, all of the animals used (dogs and horses) were also female. Within two years of the release of this film, Shearer would retire permanently from the screen; within four years, Crawford would leave MGM at Louis B. Mayer’s “request.” MovieArt has received this poster back from the conservation firm where it was linen backed and restored and the result is spectacular. Very rare in this format. We know of only one occasion on which this style three sheet ever appeared in an auction. A spectacular image of Crawford — and two other major MGM stars, Norma Shearer and Rosalind Russell. The photo was taken before the rebacking. We will post the new photo soon.

Original United Artists One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Alfred Hitchcock gothic thriller, REBECCA (1940) starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. Many critics consider this film to be Hitchcock’s first true masterpiece. The film was produced by David O. Selznick, with whom Hitchcock clashed from the beginning, due to Selznick’s obsessive control over the film. Olivier is perfect as a broken man living in the past, who marries a frightened and weak Fontaine. By the end of the film, she evolves into a mature and strong woman capable of holding her own. Sanders is positively hateful, and Anderson portrays one of the most coldly sadistic figures in cinematic history. Besides great acting and direction, the film has magnificent cinematography and a wonderfully haunting score by Franz Waxman. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Olivier, Best Actress for Fontaine, Best Supporting Actress for Judith Anderson, and Best Director for Hitchcock (his first director nomination). It won two Academy Awards—including Best Picture. This original one sheet poster is in fine plus condition with some restoration. Fixed rough and uneven borders. Fixed several small tears and missing chips. Poster presents extraordinarily well.

Original 20th Century Fox Three Sheet Poster (41×81) for the Irwin Allen sci-fi adventure, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961)—starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, and Peter Lorre. Pidgeon leads fellow iconoclasts aboard a giant, futuristic submarine in a desperate race to save the earth from fiery oblivion. The submarine model and interior sets cost almost half a million dollars to create. After the film was a box office hit, director/producer Allen was able to convince ABC to turn it into a TV series starring Richard Basehart. This original three sheet poster is folded and in fine plus condition.

Original United Artists Stone Lithograph One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Alfred E. Green military academy drama, THE DUKE OF WEST POINT (1938) starring Louis Hayward, Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, and Richard Carlson. The titular “Duke” is actually an American raised in England and schooled at Cambridge who goes to West Point only because of family tradition. But the “snob” does have a heart of gold, and the audience largely sees him through the eyes of his “everyman” roommates (Brown and Carlson). This original stone lithograph one sheet poster is in good condition.