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Gilda
(1946)
This image solidified Rita Hayworth’s love goddess image.
The Jean Louis gown and trailed fur were used to recreate a scene
from the film.
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Thief
of Bagdad (1924)
Douglas
Fairbanks was a world-class star, possessing charm, prowess, virility
and audience rapport. Not only did he star in the special effects
filled fantasy The Thief of Bagdad, but he also produced
the film.
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King
Kong (1933)
King Kong
was released in the middle of the Depression, and the elaborate advertising
used for this film resulted in it earning $1,761,000 at the Radio
City Music Hall and the Roxy during its first run alone.
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Woman
in Red (1935)
Audiences
loved to cheer on Barbara Stanwyck, the underdog who elbowed her way
to the right side of the tracks! Stanwyck was tomboyish, yet used
sex like a loaded gun. If this poster couldn’t put her over as
a sexpot, what else could?
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The
Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Rita Hayworth
was definitely wicked in this movie! The poster shows yet another
provocative pose by Hayworth, showing why she was one of the favorite
pin-up girls of the time. Hayworth shocked moviegoers with this picture
by chopping off her long, lustrous locks and dying them blonde.
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The
Son of the Sheik (1926)
This was
the last film that Rudolph Valentino ever made. In it, he plays both
father and son. This is a rollicking, sumptuous and sexy silent adventure.
The poster shows the famous "ravishing of Yasmin" scene
with Vilma Banky.
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Casablanca (1943)
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this all-time classic romance. Considered by many to be the best film ever made and one of the most quoted movies of all time, it rocketed Bogart from gangster roles to romantic leads as he and Bergman sizzled together on screen.
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The
Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Female
members of the audience were known to shriek or faint when Mary Philbin
unmasked Lon Chaney’s ‘Phantom’! Universal provided
a lavish advertising campaign for this film, with seven different
one-sheets alone being created.
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Dracula
(1931)
This film was billed as "The strangest story of passion
the world has ever known". Bela Lugosi took this role from stage
to the silver screen, and it shot him to stardom. Dracula is the character
most frequently portrayed in horror films, and this one was the first!
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Murders
in the Rue Morgue(1932)
Murders in the Rue Morgue featured Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic
story of the horrors of Paris. The style is typical of illustrator
Karoly Grosz, who created many images for Universal’s horror
flicks.
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The
Wolf Man (1941)
The Wolf Man was Universal’s most successful monster film
of the forties. In this movie, Lon Chaney, Jr. is the haunted, hairy
victim of Bela Lugosi’s fanged bite.
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Hell’s
Angels (1930)
With this line, Jean Harlow’s career was launched. This
movie is the only color film that she ever appeared in, but Harlow
was not the only thing that was colorful about this film. Three aerial
stuntmen were killed during the making of this movie.
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The
Sin of Nora Moran (1933)
The spectacular artwork of this poster suggests the early Alberto
Vargas, who frequently worked in picture advertising in the early
thirties. Vargas was known for his long-limbed, sensuous pin-ups that
came to be known as "the Varga Girl".
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The
Girl From 10th Avenue (1935)
Warner Brothers coined the publicity slogan "No one is as
good as Bette when she’s bad!" and Bette Davis is delightfully
"bad" in this picture. This movie was her first starring
picture, and was history in the making.
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A
Dog’s Life (1918)
This endearing poster shows "The Little Tramp" at
his best. The classic lines of this poster emphasize the sad, yet
funny comedy of Chaplin together with man’s best friend.
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Dracula’s
Daughter (1936)
Gloria Holden is the eerie, haunting, and tragic Countess Zaleska,
who journeys to the foggy streets of London to see if her father,
Count Dracula, is truly dead. Next thing you know, drained corpses
start showing up in the streets again...
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The
Mummy (1933)
This one-sheet is one of the most highly valued movie posters
of all time. The style is typical of illustrator Karoly Grosz, who
created many images for Universal’s horror flicks...
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Lolita (1962)
A middle-aged professor is consumed by his lust for a teenage nymphet in this strange film considered very daring in its time. Based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel.
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The
Invisible Man (1933)
Based on H.G. Wells’ novel, the Invisible Man starred
a novice movie actor, Claude Rains. Carl Laemmle, the studio head
at the time, ordered a full-effort ad campaign after viewing the initial
rough cut of the movie.
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Buffalo Bill’s Wild West (1901)
"Last of the great scouts!" Colonel W.F. Cody featured in a great classic poster image for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
A pioneering and highly-imitated silent era film in the most extreme expressionistic style about a hypnotist in a carnival. Highly influential in its approach to lighting, composition, design and acting.
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Play
Ball With Babe Ruth (1920)
The original Sultan of Swat himself Babe Ruth stars in this
1920 sports classic from Universal Studios.
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Richard III (1912)
According to the American Film Institute, this is the oldest surviving American feature film and, in 1912, the most ambitious adaptation of Shakespeare ever attempted.
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