Original Polish Poster (26×39) for the Martin Ritt drama, NORMA RAE (1979) starring Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle and Barbara Baxley. One-time teen star Field won an Academy Award for her performance as a union organizer in a small Southern town, taking on “the Man” and winning workplace concessions for her fellow associates. The poster design has Norma’s face up close, cramped inside a human palm that seems to be saying “STOP!” With artwork by Romuald Socha, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (26×38) for the Richard Attenborough biographical drama, GANDHI (1982) starring Oscar-winning Ben Kngsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Nigel Hawthorne, Daniel Day-Lewis, Edward Fox and Geraldine James. GANDHI is one of the last great epics of world cinema employing literally a cast of thousands without CGI. The life and times of Mahatma Gandhi, from young enthusiastic student to world leader seeking non-violent resistance and change is told with a warmth and clarity belying the massive size and scope of the production. The design for this Polish poster features an image of the enlightened one praying as if created from bits of paper floating on air — a subtle and imaginative take on a man whose soul superseded the corporeal. With artwork by Woutan, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (26×37) for the Randa Haines drama, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986) starring Marlee Matlin, William Hurt and Piper Laurie. This powerful film was based on Mark Medoff’s popular Broadway play and tells of a romance between a deaf student (Matlin) and a new teacher at her school. Marlee Matlin, in a brilliant performance told primarily through American sign language, received an Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture. Poster design features an image of Matlin looking worried and distrustful, literally unable to speak — her mouth erased. With artwork by Waldemar Swierzy, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (26×38) for the Steven Spielberg science fiction classic, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban and Lance Henriksen. A close encounter of the third kind is an actual meeting with an animated alien being associated with a UFO; not just a sighting or a physical effect from contact with the spacecraft. In Spielberg’s classic film, several ordinary Americans find themselves drawn to a remote part of the American plains where they will literally find themselves in the presence of extraordinary beings from another world. Poster design features an almost comical image of an alien positioned before an ectoplasmic scrim. With artwork by Andrzei Pagowski, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (23×33) for the Arthur Hiller romantic drama, LOVE STORY (1970) starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland and Tommy Lee Jones. Two young college students at Harvard/Radcliff meet, fall in love, she becomes ill, dies, and his heart is broken. All of this became one of the biggest hits of the era with a tag phrase “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” that left people scratching their heads but adoring the return to Hollywood romance after a decade of swinging singles and hippie free love. Based on a book by Erich Segal, LOVE STORY features an absolutely perfect musical score by Francis Lai for which he won the films only Oscar. Poster design includes a portrait of McGraw and O’Neal as young lovers within a psychedelic heart while a tiny cherub does his handiwork! Art on this poster is by Jakub Erol. Very Fine Plus. This is the best poster on this film that we know of.

Original Polish Poster (26×37) for the Bernardo Bertolucci epic, THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Vivian Wu. This grand and opulent saga recounts the life of Pu Yi, once the child Emperor of China, following his young, dissolute life and exploitation by the Japanese in WWII through his inevitable disgrace at the hands of the Maoist revolutionaries of the Cultural Revolution. Bertolucci’s film was his greatest international success garnering multiple Academy Awards. The artwork on this Polish poster is colorful, dramatic and striking in its rendering of Lone’s character. Art is by Waldemar Swierzy.

Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet (27×41) for the John Cromwell drama THE GODDESS (1958) starring Kim Stanley, Lloyd Bridges, Steven Hill, Patty Duke and Louse Beavers. This drama, written by the brilliant Paddy Chayevsky, was basically in the form of a biopic and based around the early and upcoming years of an actress modeled on the real-life Marilyn Monroe. Kim Stanley, an acclaimed stage actress of the era, really made a splash with this performance, tearing up the screen with a degree of depth and emotion rivaled only by the likes of European actresses like Anna Magnani and Giuletta Masina. This was truly a portrait of a deepening misery and unhappiness experienced by an actress as she climbed the pinnacle of success. Stanley would make very few films over her career with this being one of the most sensational yielding her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. The poster is folded and in very fine plus condition.

Original Columbia Pictures Insert Poster (14×36) for the Sydney Pollack cross-dressing comic masterpiece, TOOTSIE (1982)—starring Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, and Teri Garr. Hoffman is truly amazing as the unemployed actor with a reputation for being difficult, who disguises himself as a woman to get a role in a soap opera. The film was a box office hit and received 10 Academy Award nominations—including Best Actor for Hoffman, Best Supporting Actress for Gar, Best Director for Pollack, and Best Picture. Jessica Lange won the sole Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. This unfolded original insert poster is in very fine plus condition.

Original Warner Bros. 1971 Reissue One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the George Cukor iconic musical, MY FAIR LADY (1964) starring Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, and Wilfrid Hyde-White. Harrison play a misanthropic and snobbish phonetics professor who agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl (Hepburn) and make her presentable in high society. Everything about the production is superlative—outstanding acting, expert direction, lavish costumes and sets, memorable songs and incidental music, and stunning cinematography. The film was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won eight Oscars—including Best Picture, Best Director to Cukor, and Best Actor to Harrison. This original 1971 reissue one sheet poster is folded and in very fine condition. Artwork is by Bob Peak.

Original 20th Century-Fox Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Elia Kazan anti-Semitism drama, GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947) starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, and Celeste Holm. In this excellent screenplay by Moss Hart, a reporter (Peck) pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story about anti-Semitism, and in the process he personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. Very few films confront bigotry as intelligently as this one, because it confronts the unspoken, insensitive attitudes of the many rather than the violent and outrageous acts of a few. A “gentleman’s agreement” is made without writing or even speech and refers to the many bigots who unthinkingly assume their prejudices are universally accepted. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director to Kazan, and Best Supporting Actress to Holm. This great portrait two-shot we have graded in very good condition only. Could be easily restored to very fine.

This is an original Embassy Pictures Half Sheet (22×28) poster for the Mike Nichols edgy comic masterpiece, THE GRADUATE (1967) starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, and Katharine Ross. This film is considered one of the greatest American films; indeed, the American Film Institute has ranked this film at number seven of the Best American films. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards—including Best Picture, Best Actor for Hoffman, Best Actress for Bancroft, Best Supporting Actress for Ross. Director Nichols won the Oscar for Best Director. This original half sheet poster is rolled and is in fine plus condition. There is a bit of scribbling -almost unobtrusive in the white background area that prevent this poster from being graded higher. This is a very simple fix for an experienced restorer. Also a very small tear in the top border area. The half sheet poster presents the best image of Hoffman and Bancroft together. In bed no less! Hard to find in this format.