Original Polish Poster (27×41) for the Daniel Mann drama, A DREAM OF KINGS (1969) starring Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Inger Stevens and Sam Levene. This poignant saga follows a desperate man’s attempt to take his ill son back to his homeland of Greece to recuperate. Problems ensue with a romantic triangle consisting of Quinn, his wife (Papas) and his mistress (Stevens). From a novel by Harry Mark Petrakis. Poster design features a winged Greek pillar ready to take flight against a rising sun. With artwork by Rene Mulas, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Daniel Mann war drama, THE MOUNTAIN ROAD (1960)—starring James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, and Harry Morgan. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition, with a chip out of the lower left corner and some pinholes.

Original U.S. 30×40 for the Daniel Mann drama BUTTERFIELD 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, and Eddie Fisher. Elizabeth Taylor was facing the scorn of a nation – for “stealing” Debbie Reynold’s husband Eddie Fisher – when MGM decided to cash in on the scandal and make Taylor take this role of bad-girl-from-hell as the final film in her contract to the studio. Taylor purportedly hated the movie, but it turned out to be Gold for her. The film is adapted from John O’Hara’s prohibition-era novel about a high class call-girl. But in this film, set contemporaneously, Elizabeth Taylor plays a hard-drinking, sexed-up, bed-hopping model, who gets her kicks from seducing and then dumping one man after another. Taylor always complained that the film was a total piece of trash. But her over-the-top performance was just what the role required and won her the first of her two Oscars for Best Actress. What is unfathomable is how anyone could be interested in cold-fish Laurence Harvey. When Taylor grinds her stiletto heels into Harvey’s toes, we cheer. Elizabeth’s best line in the film: “I’m not like anyone; I”m me.” Truer words were never spoken. BUTTERFIELD 8 is a true Movieart favorite. This unusual 30×40 poster is a rare size for this title, featuring more color than the one sheet. This poster could be paper-backed to make it more presentable. Condition is rated as fine.

Original Paramount Pictures Half Sheet Poster (22×28) for the Daniel Mann romantic drama, THE ROSE TATTOO (1955) starring Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, and Ben Cooper. Adapted by Hal Kanter from a Broadway play by Tennessee Williams, the film focuses on Serafina (Magnani), who realizes, after her husband is killed in a car crash, that her husband was a smuggler and a womanizer. Overwhelmed by these harsh revelations, Serafina withdraws into her own world until Alvaro (Lancaster) comes into her life. Magnani’s compelling performance absolutely dominates the film and deservedly won her an Oscar for Best Actress. The film was nominated for seven other Academy Awards and won two more—for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. This original half sheet poster is folded and in fine plus condition, with only an enlarged fold separation in the left border area.

Original MGM Three Sheet Poster (41×81) for the Daniel Mann political drama, ADA (1961) starring Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Melodrama about Louisiana and its governor– adapted from a bestselling potboiler novel, ADA DALLAS, by Wirt Williams. Long before Edwin Edwards, but sometime after Huey Long, there was ADA. The film gets the same slick treatment that director Mann gave BUTTERFIELD 8. This time the bitch in the driver’s seat is Susan Hayward. This original theater-used three sheet poster is in fine condition, with only some distresses. The poster sections have been joined as it was a theater-used poster. We have additional three sheets on this title which may be of lesser or better condition, probably lesser! Close-up photography of Susan Hayward and Dean Martin.

Original MGM Insert Poster (14×36) for the Daniel Mann drama BUTTERFIELD 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, and Eddie Fisher. Taylor had just married singer Eddie Fisher, her fourth husband after the death of producer Mike Todd, stolen ostensibly from the Beloved Trouper Debbie Reynolds. The howl
of condemnation was loud. MGM decided to cash in on the bad publicity and make Taylor take this role of bad-girl-from-hell as the final film in her contract to the studio. Taylor purportedly hated the movie, but it turned out to be Gold for her. The film is adapted from John O’Hara’s prohibition-era novel about a high class call-girl. But in this film, set contemporaneously, Elizabeth Taylor plays a hard-drinking, sexed-up, bed-hopping model, who gets her kicks from seducing and then dumping one man after another. Taylor always complained that the film was a total piece of trash. But her over-the-top performance was just what the role required and won her the first of her two Oscars for Best Actress. What is unfathomable is how anyone could be interested in cold-fish Laurence Harvey. When Taylor grinds her stiletto heels into Harvey’s toes, we cheer. Elizabeth’s best line in the film: “I’m not like anyone; I”m me.” Truer words were never spoken. A rolled very fine copy of the insert.