Original Fox Searchlight Pictures One Sheet poster for the Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris film LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) starring Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin, Toni Colette, Alan Arkin, and Steve Carrell. This offbeat and satirical comedy drama followed a highly dysfunctional family as they travel across the US by VW bus, planning on entering their little girl into a child beauty and talent competition in Southern California. Alan Arkin received a long-awaited Academy Award for his cunning performance as the drug-addled and cranky patriarch of the clan. This teaser poster is rolled, double-sided and in very fine plus condition.

Original 20th Century Fox Polish Poster (23×32) for the Joseph L. Mankiewicz dramatic masterpiece of fame and celebrity, ALL ABOUT EVE (1950)—starring Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders. This classic story of ambition and betrayal chronicles the lengths to which aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Baxter) will go to worm her way into the lives of the established and temperamental Broadway icon, Margo Channing (Davis), and her intimate theater friends. The film received 14 Academy Award nominations and is tied with TITANTIC (1997) for the most nominations ever. It won 6 Oscars, including Best Actor for George Sanders, and Best Director and Best Screenplay for Mankiewicz, and Best Picture. Both Davis and Baxter were nominated for Best Actress. This original poster from Poland is in excellent condition. Originally folded once, it has been stored flat for years. The principal characters are shown in various rooms of a house — meant to represent The Theater.

This is an original Paramount Pictures insert Poster (14×36) for the George Stevens romantic drama A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951) starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shelley Winters. The film is based on the Theodor Dreiser novel, An American Tragedy. This directorial masterpiece by Stevens is considered by many critics to be the best performances in the acting careers of Clift, Taylor, and Winters. This film about doomed love and the descent into darkness was the winner of six Academy Awards including Best Director to Stevens. The film was also nominated for Best Picture as well as Best Actor (Clift) and Best Actress (Winters). This original insert poster is in fine plus condition and has been paper-backed.

Original Warner Bros. One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Sidney Lumet crime drama thriller, DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, and Chris Sarandon. This film tells the true story about a man who robs a bank (Pacino) to pay for his lover’s (Sarandon) sex-change operation. But things go very wrong, and the episode turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. Pacino’s manic performance is excellent, shifting between depressive and energetic. Lumet’s direction shows style, flair, and a heartfelt sense of emotion and care. The film received six Academy Award nominations—including Best Picture, Best Director for Lumet, Best Supporting Actor for Sarandon, and Best Actor for Pacino. Frank Pierson won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition. There are some extra creases and pinholes in the corners.

Original Spanish Poster (28×39) for the Byron Haskin sci-fi classic, THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953) starring Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, and Les Tremayne. One of the best sci-fi movies of the 1950s, this is the film adaptation of the famous H. G. Wells novel, already revisited by the radio broadcast of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on Halloween evening, 1938. That program, which began with a series of news bulletins without commercial interruption, caused near panic among listeners who were convinced that an actual Martian invasion was in progress. This popular film version of the story was nominated for three Academy Awards and won the Oscar for Best Special Effects for the near perfect swan-like flying machines attacking earth. A superb poster for this title. This original Spanish poster is paper-backed with some touch-up to the fold lines and is in very fine condition. There is some damage to the paper backing in the border area as shown on the image. MovieArt will be happy to have this poster rebacked or the paper border repaired.

Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Milton Katselas romantic comedy, BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE (1972) starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, and Eileen Heckart. Set in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco in the early 1970s, a blind man (Albert) moves into his own apartment against the wishes of his overprotective mother (Heckart) and befriends the freethinking young woman next door (Hawn). Adapted from a Broadway play written by Leonard Gershe, the original play opened at the Booth Theater on October 21, 1969 and ran for 1128 performances. Eileen Heckart reprised her role as the overprotective mother for which she had received a Tony nomination in 1970 and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her film performance. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition. It does have some minor pinholes in the corners but no fold separations. .

Original 20th Century-Fox One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Martin Ritt union organizing drama, NORMA RAE (1979) starring Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, and Pat Hingle. This excellent drama is the story of a young single mother and textile worker who agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. The film was based on the true life union organizing campaign at the J.P. Stevens Mill, where it took ten years to get a union contract after workers won the election. The film was nominated for four Oscars—including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Sally Field won the Oscar for Best Actress, and the film also won Best Original Song. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition. There is an extra light crease along the top and bottom borders, but there are no fold separations.

Original MGM Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the George Cukor classic romantic comedy, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Ruth Hussey. One of the greatest romantic comedies of all time, the story is set around the wedding of Philadelphia heiress Tracy Lord (Hepburn). Her ex-husband Dexter (Grant) decides to crash the event and brings along two reporters (Stewart and Hussey). After a number of disappointing films in the mid-1930s, Hepburn decided to return to Broadway and starred in the stage version of this play, which was written by playwright Phillip Barry especially for Hepburn. An unmitigated hit, Hepburn purchased the movie rights and sold them to MGM. This triumphal return to the screen in this unforgettable role instantly reignited her movie career. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards—including Best Picture, Best Director for Cukor, and Best Actress for Hepburn. The film won the Oscars for Best Screenplay to Donald Ogden Stewart and Best Supporting Actor to Stewart. This original scene card is in fine plus condition—with only some minor tears in the top, left, and bottom corners as well as blunted corners.

Original MGM Insert Poster (14×36) for the Frank Lloyd adventure drama classic, MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935) starring Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone. This is the true story of Fletcher Christian (Gable), who successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain William Bligh (Laughton), only to have Bligh return a year later to avenge the mutiny. Every thing about this film is superlative: the acting, direction, cinematography, music, sets, and locations. The acting was so good that all three leading actors (Laughton, Gable, and Tone) were all nominated for Best Actor. This is the only film in history to garner three Best Actor nominations; thus, the Academy had to create new Best Supporting Actor and Actress categories. The film won the Best Picture Oscar. This original insert poster is in good condition.

Original United Artists One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Richard Brooks drama, ELMER GANTRY (1960) starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, and Shirley Jones. Richard Brooks’ screenplay was adapted from the highly controversial novel by Sinclair Lewis, and no studio initially wanted to finance the film. The story deals with Gantry (Lancaster)– a fast-talking, hard drinking traveling salesman. He becomes fascinated with a charismatic female evangelist (Simmons) and teams up with her to “sell” religion to America in the 1920s. But Gantry’s sordid past catches up with him in the form of a prostitute named Lulu (Jones). The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won three Oscars: Best Actor to Lancaster, Best Supporting Actress to Jones, and Best Adapted Screenplay to Brooks. This original one sheet poster is in near mint condition.

This is an original Yugoslavian 1960s Re-release Poster (20×28) for the Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) starring Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, John Derek and Edward G. Robinson. This is the story of Moses, born to slavery but raised as a son of Pharaoh, who learns of his Hebrew heritage and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people. This was DeMille’s second time to direct this story, but his first as a retelling directly of the Bible story; the 1923 version was a silent film told partially in a contemporaneous setting. Heston was chosen for the part because of his striking physical resemblance to Michelangelo’s sculpture of Moses. Brynner was chosen because of his magnificent performance in THE KING AND I (1956). Besides the outstanding acting from the major members of the cast, the film boasted a cast of literally thousands, marvelous special effects, beautifully detailed costumes, and lavish sets. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture but only won the much deserved Oscar for Best Special Effects. This 20×28 Yugoslavian poster is probably a re-release poster from the sixties. Modestly priced, the poster is in very good condition with some small tears. This art is significantly different from the 1956 posters, and shows Moses in two tableau from the film — the parting of the red sea and the idolatry of the Children of Israel before the Golden Calf. Linen backing would help this small poster. Please see our post on Linen backing and Restoration.

Original Warner Brothers One Sheet Poster (27×41) for Elia Kazan’s dramatic masterpiece, EAST OF EDEN (1955) starring Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Richard Davalos, and Jo Van Fleet. This was James Dean’s screen debut as the neurotic and troubled twin son of the Bible-reading lettuce farmer Massey. His performance was so riveting that he was nominated for Best Actor, the first posthumous acting nomination in Academy Award history as Dean had been killed in an automobile accident in September 1955 at the age of twenty-four. Other Academy nominations included Best Director for Kazan and Best Screenplay for Paul Osborn’s adaptation of the popular John Steinbeck novel. Jo Van Fleet was nominated for and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as the mother of the twin brothers and a successful but embittered brothel madam in Monterey. Originally folded, this one sheet poster is in very fine minus condition with only some minor foxing and a snipe on the right side.