The Artist is a 2011 French romantic comedy drama in the style of a black-and-white silent film.The film was written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship of an older silent film star and a rising young actress, as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the “talkies”.

The Artist received near-universal acclaim from critics and won many accolades. Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. The film was nominated for six Golden Globes, the most of any 2011 film, and won three; Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Original Score, and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Dujardin. In January 2012 the film was nominated for twelve BAFTAs, also the most of any film from 2011, and won seven, the most wins of the night, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Dujardin.

It was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director for Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Dujardin, who was the first French actor ever to win. It was the first French film to ever win Best Picture, the first mainly silent film to win since 1927′s Wings (the first recipient of the Best Picture Award, in 1929), the first film presented in the 4:3 aspect ratio to win since 1955′s Marty, the first black-and-white film to win since 1960′s The Apartment, and the first non-R-rated film to win since 2004′s Million Dollar Baby.

In France, it was nominated for ten César Awards,winning six, including Best Film, Best Director for Hazanavicius and Best Actress for Bejo. The Artist became the most awarded French film in history.

Academy Awards

Best Picture

Best Director

Michel Hazanavicius

Best Actor

Jean Dujardin

Best Costume Design

Mark Bridges

Best Original Score

Ludovic Bource

Nominations

Best Supporting Actress: Bérénice Bejo (winner: Octavia Spencer – The Help)

Best Writing – Original Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius (winner: Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen)

Best Art Direction: Laurence Bennett and Robert Gould (winner: Hugo – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo)

Best Cinematography: Hugo – Robert Richardson (winner: Guillaume Schiffman)

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They produced the artwork for the iconic Star Wars poster, what you probably didn’t know was that it wouldn’t be used as a US theatrically released one-sheet movie poster for another 15 years!

Now before you go writing in…

The original poster was done by Tom Jung but it seems when they first saw it Lucasfilms felt it was too ‘dark’ and commissioned the brothers to produce another based on Jung’s work. But with the deadline to produce the required newspaper ads just nine days away, the artwork needed to be done in two!

With some movie stills and a photo of Tom Jung’s concept the brothers raced back to their studio and started painting. The only direction they were given was to make the image look “comic bookish.” In their book The Star Wars Poster Book by Steve Sansweet and Pete Vilmur, Greg Hildebrandt remembers the tag-team approach they used to complete the piece. “I posed my then-wife in a nightgown and tore it in a few places to get that ‘Frazetta’ look,” he added, “I had a friend throw on a bathrobe for Luke, then I took Polaroid photos, and Tim and I started to draw. By then it was around 8 p.m. We drew together until about midnight, then I went to sleep and Tim transferred what we had drawn to art board, painted for three or four hours, woke me up, and then I painted for a while. We worked like that for thirty-six hours before we finished.”

When it was completed the Hildebrandts were called in to do some touch up. Then the stroke genius, the brothers had a suggestion. “We thought there should be more characters, especially in the space to the right of Luke,” Greg Hildebrandt says. They asked if they could paint in C-3PO and R2-D2, and the studio approved. With a handful of acrylics, the brothers added the droids to the painting right there and then!

Back then Lucasfilms didn’t weld the big stick that they do today so it was 20th Century Fox who had the last word and they decided to go with the original Jung design. However all was not lost, the Hildebrandt design was in fact used on the first bi-lingual produced posterand also on promotional material produced at the time and 15 years later it would feature as the re-release poster.

Their poster design is now considered to be highly prized and very collectible (particularly the bi-lingual one), as valuable as the original Jung design. The original British quad release of their design is quite rare and well worth having in your collection…if you can afford it!

Who are the Brother Hildebrandt?

In 1939 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House. Hitler had begun to wage war in Europe, The Wizard of OZ would soon charm 131 million people and the Brothers Hildebrandt were born. Timothy Allen Mark Hildebrandt was born in Detroit, Michigan on January 23, 1939 to George and Germaine Hildebrandt, five minutes after the birth of his identical twin brother Greg. The parents fostered a world of fantasy for their sons as works by Jules Verne, H. G Wells. Frank L. Baum and Edgar Rice Burroughs could be found throughout the household, as well as books illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle.

They were strongly influenced by many great comic books and strips, like Terry & the Pirates, Steve Canyon, Prince Valiant, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Wonder Woman, Bat-Man, and Superman. They were captivated by other forms of fantasy: puppets, especially Charlie McCarthy, Howdy Doody and the Kuklapolitans; science fiction novels/films, including Frankenstein, When Worlds Collide and War of the Worlds; and illustrators, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish.

Over the years Greg and Tim would work together and separately, winning awards and fame. Together they won the coveted Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators. They created everything from their fantasy novel, Urshurak, to that now famous poster for Star Wars, to the best-selling calendars illustrating J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

Perhaps their biggest influence was Walt Disney, especially his Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia. They dreamed of becoming Disney animators. While they did not work for Disney, they became animators and documentary film-makers, working on a film about Project Hope for the Jam Handy Co., industrial film producers. Jam Handy won the Golden Eagle award for this film.

Shortly after leaving Detroit for New York they worked for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen making documentary films on world hunger.

Then they went on to write and illustrate their own epic fantasy novel Urshurak, published in 1979, which was on the New York Times Bestsellers List for six weeks (they unsuccessfully attempted to turn Urshurak into a feature film).

The brothers went their separate ways in 1981 and didn’t speak for several years, Greg Hildebrandt remembers. But after 12 years the brothers reunited in 1993. They worked on Marvel posters, pre-production art for Stan Lee & Michael Uslan, producer of the Batman Films, a King Tut book, the 1994 Marvel Masterpieces card set, X-Men & Spiderman card sets, Terry & The Pirates comic strip and an X-Men 2099 painted Bookshelf edition released in January 1996.

In 1999 Greg began to paint a life-long dream. He created his American Beauties series of Retro Pinup art. There are presently 65 amazing paintings in this series and Greg says the possibilities are endless.

In 2003 he began creating art for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Since Greg loves Rock Opera there could not be a better match than his art and TSO’S music. 2011 marks Greg’s ninth year creating all of the art for Paul O’Neill and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

With his American Beauties Pinup Series Greg has touched on many individual areas. He has painted Noir Pinups, good Girls, bad girls, show girls, tough girls and cute girls. Recently he has focused on girls and cars, mostly antique, the cars not the girls. Greg has appeared at the Barrett-Jackson automobile auctions in Palm Beach Florida, Las Vegas, Orange County, CA and Scottsdale where he just painted a 1959 Chevy Impala rear-end, live.

Automobile Quarterly Magazine did a feature article on Greg in the 4th Quarter of 2008 and used one of his favorite pinups on their cover. This was a real honor for him.

In 2009 Greg painted an amazing pinup on the nose cone of a completely refurbished WWII P-38 Lightning. This was a dream come true for him. Since then he has painted a pinup on a 1944 Bearcat and a 1944 B-25 bomber. And just recently he finished a 1949 tiger Cat WWII plane. At 72 Greg still paints almost every day and stills loves what he does.

The art of Greg Hildebrandt allows the fantasies and dreams of children of all ages to come true.

Tim Hildebrandt passed away in June of 2006.

The Secret of Nimh (1981)
Star Wars (1977) (original artwork used on the first bi-lingual poster (la guerra de las galaxia) and then used for the re-release in 1992.)

Also painted but never used:

Young Frankentein (1974) (another urgent studio request, painted in 24 hours!)
Barbarella (1968)

Our thanks to Jean Scrocco of Spiderwebart Gallery; also referenced: “The Star Wars Poster Book” by Steve Sansweet and Pete Vilmur.

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Alvan “Hap” Hadley (1985-1976): Hap created movie posters for some of the best-loved silent movies. Some of his most well known works are the posters he produced for Buster Keaton’s 1927 movies “The General” and “College,” and for Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 Oscar-winning film, “The Circus.”

Only one original “The General” is known to have survived and fetched $46,000 at a Christie’s auction in 1994 whilst a restored, on linen poster of “The Circus” sold for just over $13,000 in 2007.

His career spanned some 30 years, and although he mainly produced for MGM he also supplied movie posters for many of the other major Hollywood studios he also produced some of the promotional posters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Howard Hughes’ famous 1930 WWI aerial combat movie (Hell’s Angels) was represented on a movie poster drawn by Hap – very few of his art appears at auctions today but from time to time a bargain is still to be should they ever come available.

Hap’s style was very much characterisation, a style that he developed an official artist for the Marine Corps, producing propaganda-laden cartoon strips. As a result of this background his drawing style is almost instantly recognisable in many of his movie posters when his art comes up for sale.

You can find his vintage movie posters in such film titles as:

Rough House Rosie (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The General (1927)
College (1927)
The Circus (1928)
Hell’s Angels (1930)
Cock of the Air (1932)
Laff It Off (1928 – Broadways stage show)
Reform Girl (1933)
Cheating Blondes (1933)

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John Held Jr. (1899-1958): Certainly not as well known in the movie poster field as he was in magazine and periodicals media but John Held Jr was one of the most famous and successful magazine illustrators of the 1920s.

It was his images of bob-cut flappers and racoon-coated frat boys that defined the look of that decade. His move to New York in 1910 proved a good career move and his art was soon appearing in major magazines such as Life, Liberty, Judge, Cosmopolitan and The New Yorker. Held lost his fortune with the arrival of The Depression, and his work also fell out of favour, in his later years he taught at both Harvard and the University of Georgia.

However, when it came to movie posters John Held Jr was (and still is) less well known probably due as much to the amount of titles he produced as to the small success of the movies he was hired to produced them for. But during the 1920s he was very much a favourite of art director Hal Burrows, who hired to illustrate many of MGM’s comedy posters. John Held Jr Signature

Held also signed his movie posters and most of them were produced with his telltale signature on them.

Today, his posters, due to their rarity and their now popular styling generally command a good premium at auction (around $2,000-$3,000), look for such titles as:

Battling Butler (1926)
The Boy Friend (1926)
Money Talks (1926)
Tin Hats (1926)
So This Is College (1929)
The Girl Said No (1930)

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Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003): Arguably the movie poster artist with the longest career span Hirschfeld is primarily know for his caricatures of famous people, movie and otherwise.

Throughout his life he produced memorable drawings of some very famous people, his simple line drawings are still in such demand even now nearly 10 years after his death.

As to movie posters, Hirschfeld worked in the art departments of MGM as well as Warner Brothers, and in fact was art director for David O. Selznick for some time.

Some of his most memorable posters were produced over a 20 year period from 1929 and although he returned to his preferred art form of caricaturisation he did briefly produce movie posters once again in the 70s.

Just like his art some of his movie posters are well regarded and very much in demand by collectors, movie posters for such films as:

Bringing Up Father (1928)
The Broadway Melody (1929)
The Bacon Grabbers (1929)
Hallelujah! (1929)
Fra Diavolo (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933)
A Night at the Opera (1933)
A Day at the Races (1935)
At the Circus (1939)
Go West (1940)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
New York, New York (1977)

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Drew Struzan is still one of the film industry’s most recognised and celebrated movie poster artists. Born in 1947 he began producing movie posters while still in his teens and fondly remembers his first ever printed one being for the 1975 movie Black Bird.

His career like many was not such an illustrious beginning (more an illustrated one!) and he mainly started by producing posters for B Grade movies (B Grade science fiction movie poster collectors should probably keep an eye out for his 1976 poster for the movie ‘Food of the Gods or the following year his production for the movie ‘Empire of the Ants’).

One could say his big ‘break’ came in 1977 when he was asked to collaborate with fellow artist Charles White III who had been hired by Lucas to create a poster design for the 1978 re-release of Star Wars. White, well-known for his own airbrush prowess, was apparently uncomfortable with portraiture so asked Struzan for his help on the project. Struzan agreed and painted the human characters in oil paints and White focused on the ships, Darth Vader, C-3PO and all the mechanical details of the poster art.

The poster they produced is said to be one of George Lucas’ favourites, the rest as they say, is history…

Throughout the late ’70s and ’80s Struzan produced poster work for such films as Blade Runner, The Cannonball Run, the Police Academy series, Back to the Future, Coming To America, First Blood, Risky Business, D.C. Cab, Stroker Ace, An American Tail and many more. During this period, Struzan continued his association with Lucas by designing the original Industrial Light & Magic logo, and creating the associated one-sheet artwork for both the continuing Star Wars saga and the Indiana Jones series of films.

On announcing his retirement in 2008 (!) he said “Having been working at not working has produced a guy who could never return to illustration again. It took a lot to attempt the idea of retiring from my 40 years of effort and sacrifice but now that I have, I am delighting in life as never before. I had forgotten how to rest, to smell the proverbial roses and to see the future as opportunity. I am grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to do all the work I did. I am well pleased to have been able to give a gift of beauty and peace through my artwork to so many throughout the world. Now I have laid down the burden and have peace and happiness as the reward for my day’s labor.”

His movie poster art still remains some some of the most sort after of the modern era.
Trivia: In the opening shot of the 2007 movie The Mist it features film posters of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series and The Thing (1982). All posters in the room at the beginning of the film were painted by Drew Struzan.

A list of some of Drew’s poster…

Animal Crackers
The Black Bird
Return to Macon Count
Car Wash
Food of the Gods
Futureworld
Harry and Walter go to New York
Killer Force
Robin and Marian
The Seven Percent Solution
A Small Town in Texas
Squirm
Tentacles
Empire of the Ants
Just a Little Inconvenience
Last Remake of Beau Geste
MacArthur
March or Die March or Die
Star Wars (1977 rerelease)
Thunder and Lightning
A Piece of the Action
High Ballin
The Norseman
Sextette
Tilt
Who is Killing the Great Chefs in Europe?
California Suite
C.H.O.M.P.S.
The Evictors
The Frisco Kid
Health Mathilda
Borderline
Caboblanco
Hotwire
Mother Lode
The Muppet Movie (A & B versions)
Oh, Heavenly Dog
Raise the Titanic
Those Lips, Those Eyes
All Night Long
The Cannonball Run
Fake Out
The Great Muppet Caper
Incubus
Kill Squad
The Legend of the Lone Ranger
Raiders of the Lost Ark
First Blood
I, the Jury
The Sting II (A & B versions)
The Thing
Champions
D.C.Cab
Eddie Macon’s Run
Heat and Dust
Hercules
The Pirates of Penzance
Return of the Jedi
Risky Business
Sahara (A & B versions)
Second Thoughts
Stroker Ace
To Be or Not To Be
Under Fire
Unfaithfully Yours
The Bear
The Cannonball Run II (A & B versions)
Dreamscape (Red & Blue versions)
Caravan of Courage – An Ewok Adventure
Harry and Son
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Johnny Dangerously
Police Academy
Return to Oz
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead (A & B versions)
The Goonies
Ladyhawk
Meatball’s III – A Summer’s Job
Police Academy II – Their First Assignment
Rocky IV
An American Tail (A, B, C & D versions)
Big Trouble in Little China
From Another Star
Jake Speed
The Name of the Rose
Police Academy III – Back in Training Weekend Warriors
Adventures in Babysitting
American Justice
Batteries Not Included*
Happy Hour
Hot Pursuit
Into the Fire
Masters of the Universe
Nadine The Outing (A & B versions)
Police Academy IV – Citizens on Patrol
Star Wars – The First Ten Years
Three O’clock High
After School (aka. Private tutor)
All’s Fair
Coming to America
The Experts
Moon Over Parador
Sunset
Back to the Future – Part II
Harlem Nights
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Shirley Valentine
Back to the Future – Part III
Ducktales – The Movie
Shipwrecked (aka. Hakon Hakonsen)
Taking Care of Busines
Hook
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Newsies
Stay Tuned Undercover Blues
Hocus Pocus
Hot Shots – Part Deux
We’re Back – A Dinosaur’s Story (A & B versions)
Angels in the Outfield
The Flintstones Lassie
Cutthroat Island
Mallrats Muppet
Treasure Island
Star Wars – Special Edition
The Empire Strikes Back – Special Edition
Return of the Jedi – Special Edition
Star Wars – Episode I – The Phantom Menace
Arabian Nights
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Galidor
Star Wars – Episode II – Attack of the Clones
The Crocodile Hunter – Collision Course
Hellboy
Abominable
The Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars – Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
Blood Makes Noise
Torrente 3
The Green Mile (Director’s Cut)
Labou
Simon Says
Blade Runner – The Final Cut
The Mist
The Suit
Sexina
Popstar P.I.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (four variations)
Super Capers
The Walking Dead
Cowboys and Aliens

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Reynold Brown (1917-1991): If you loved the old classic movie monster posters of the 50s and 60s then you will know who Reynold Brown is, and if not then you will instantly recognise much of his work.

In 1951, while presenting at an art exhibition for Art Center, Brown met Misha Kallis, an Art Director for Universal Pictures, she was so impressed with his work she asked him to design the poster for the Gregory Peck (B-Grade) movie A World in His Arms. That began a series of over 250 campaigns for Universal, MGM, Disney, and American International Pictures (AIP).

Brown’s work appeared in such work as epics as Ben Hur and Spartacus, in westerns like The Alamo and Taza, Son of Cochise and in dramas, science fiction, horror and monster movies.

But it was his science fiction and monster work that really has developed a huge international fan base, works such as The Time Machine and This Island Earth, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Attack of The 50ft Woman are always in demand by vintage movie poster collectors.

In 1994 he featured in the TV doco “The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters” (we would love a copy!).

As we know, it is not unusual for movie to have more than one artist (ergo more than one poster version), for instance a Dr. Zhivago posters by Reynold Brown and was also produced in another design by the great Howard Terpning. The following is a list of most of the productions he worked on, if you are aware of any we have missed please let us know.

1952 World In His Arms
1952 Against All Flags
1952 City Beneath The Sea
1952 Mississippi Gambler
1952 Redhead From Wyoming
1953 Apache
1953 Back To God’s Country
1953 Black Shield Of Falworth
1953 East Of Sumatra
1953 Great Sioux Uprising ()
1953 Man From The Alamo
1953 Thunder Bay
1954 Bengal Brigade
1954 Captain Lightfoot
1954 Conqueror
1954 Dawn At Socorro
1954 Johnny Dark
1954 One Desire
1954 Purple Mask
1954 Rails Into Laramie
1954 Saskatchewan
1954 Sign Of The Pagan
1954 Tanganyika
1954 Taza: Son Of Cochise
1954 The Creature From The Black Lagoon
1954 Yankee Pasha
1955 Benny Goodman Story
1955 Female On The Beach
1955 Joe Butterfly
1955 Lady Godiva
1955 Looters
1955 Man Without A Star
1955 Naked Dawn
1955 Revenge Of The Creature
1955 Running Wild
1955 Second Greatest Sex
1955 Shrike
1955 Smoke Signal
1955 Tarantula
1955 The Creature Walks Among Us
1955 This Island Earth
1955 To Hell And Back
1956 Away All Boats
1956 Backlash
1956 Behind The High Wall
1956 Curucu, Beast Of The Amazon
1956 Kelly And Me
1956 Mister Cory
1956 There’s Always Tomorrow
1956 Unguarded Moment
1956 Walk The Proud Land
1956 World In My Corner
1956 World Without End
1957 Battle Hymn
1957 Gun For A Coward
1957 I Was A Teenage Werewolf
1957 Land Unknown
1957 Love Slaves Of The Amazon
1957 Man Of A Thousand Faces
1957 Monolith Monsters
1957 Night Passage
1957 Pillars Of The Sky
1957 Run Of The Arrow
1957 Showdown At Abilene
1957 Taproots
1957 That Night
1957 The Deadly Mantis
1957 The Far Country
1957 The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 Viking Women And The Sea Serpent
1957 Written On The Wind
1958 Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
1958 Attack Of The Puppet People
1958 Bonnie Parker Story
1958 Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
1958 Damn Citizen
1958 Light In The Forest
1958 Mark Of The Hawk
1958 Monster On The Campus
1958 Run Silent Run Deep
1958 Silent Enemy
1958 Stranger In My Arms
1958 Teenagers From Outer Space
1958 Tom Thumb
1958 Tonka
1958 Torpedo Run
1958 Twilight For The Gods
1958 Voice In The Mirror
1959 Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
1959 Al Capone
1959 All Mine To Give
1959 All The Fine Young Cannibals
1959 Atomic Submarine
1959 Ben Hur
1959 Big Circus
1959 Black Horror House
1959 Butterfield 8
1959 Cimarron
1959 Cowboys And Indians
1959 Darby O’Gill And The Little People
1959 Fair Bride
1959 Floods Of Fear
1959 Four Fast Guns
1959 Gazebo
1959 Ghost And Castle
1959 Goliath And The Barbarians
1959 Imitation Of Life
1959 Last Of The Fast Guns
1959 Never So Few
1959 Operation Petticoat
1959 Shaggy Dog
1959 Sign Of The Gladiator
1959 Snow Queen
1959 Spartacus
1959 Step Down To Terror
1959 Tall Story
1959 T-Bird Gang
1959 The Beat Generation
1959 The Big Fisherman
1959 The Curse Of The Undead
1959 The Headless Ghost
1959 The Time Machine
1959 Third Man On The Mountain
1959 This Earth Is Mine
1959 Violators
1959 Wild And The Innocent
1959 Wreck Of The Mary Deare
1960 Bells Are Ringing
1960 Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse
1960 Go Naked In The World
1960 Head Of A Tyrant
1960 Herod The Great
1960 House Of Usher
1960 Kidnapped
1960 Please Don’T Eat The Daisies
1960 Serengeti Shall Not Die
1960 Spinster
1960 The Alamo
1960 Two Lovers
1960 Where The Boys Are
1961 Ada
1961 Comancheros
1961 Cossacks
1961 David And Goliath
1961 Dragons And Bridge
1961 Goliath And The Dragon
1961 Honeymoon Machine
1961 Horizontal Lieutenant
1961 House Of Fright
1961 Jekyle’S Inferno
1961 King Of Kings
1961 Konga
1961 Lover Come Back
1961 Man In The Iron Mask
1961 Operation Camel
1961 Outer Space
1961 Paradise
1961 Pharoah’S Woman
1961 Sweet Bird Of Youth
1961 The Fabulous World Of Jules Verne
1961 The Pit And The Pendulum
1962 55 Days At Peking
1962 Big Red
1962 Big Wave
1962 Billy Bud
1962 Burn Witch Burn
1962 Dragon
1962 High On A Mountain
1962 Hotel Sarawan
1962 How The West Was Won
1962 It Happened At The World’S Fair
1962 Jumbo
1962 Marco Polo
1962 Moonwalk
1962 Mutiny On The Bounty
1962 Outer Planets
1962 Period Of Adjustment
1962 Phantom Of The Opera
1962 Son Of Flubber
1962 The Brain That Wouldn’T Die
1962 The Courtship Of Eddie’S Father
1962 The Hook
1962 The Premature Burial
1962 White Slave Ship
1962 Wonderful World Brothers Grimm
1963 A Global Affair
1963 A Global Affair
1963 Black Zoo
1963 Captain Sinbad
1963 Edgar Allan Poe
1963 Flipper
1963 His And Hers
1963 Honeymoon Hotel
1963 Man’S Favorite Sport
1963 Racers
1963 Raven
1963 Rhino
1963 Samson And The Miracle Of The World
1963 Sunday In New York
1963 The Day Of The Triffids
1963 The Last Man On Earth
1963 The Prize
1963 The Ugly American
1963 Unsinkable Molly Brown
1963 Vikings
1963 Wheeler Dealers
1963 White Stallions
1963 X-Ray Eyes
1964 Advance To The Rear
1964 Americanization Of Emily (The)
1964 Bikini Beach
1964 Black Sabbath
1964 Flipper’S New Adventure
1964 Godzilla Vs The Thing
1964 Goliath And The Vampires
1964 Green Planet
1964 Island Of The Blue Dolphins
1964 Masque Of The Red Death
1964 Nightwalker
1964 Quick Before It Melts
1964 The Loved One
1964 The Outrage
1964 The Time Travellers
1965 Die Minster Die
1965 Doctor Zhivago
1965 Once A Thief
1965 Our Man Flint
1965 Planet Of The Vampires
1965 Shenandoah
1965 The Rare Breed
1965 War Of The Zombies
1966 Appaloosa
1966 Frankenstein Conquers The World
1966 Grand Prix
1966 Maya
1966 Money Trap
1966 Penelope
1966 Seven Women
1966 Spinout
1966 Tarzan And The Valley Of Gold
1966 The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini
1966 Wild Angels
1967 2267 A.D. When T Sleeper Awakes
1967 Born Losers
1967 H G Wells 2267 A D
1967 Happiest Millionaire
1967 Hell Riders
1967 Hell’S Angels On Wheels
1967 House Of A Thousand Dolls
1967 Never A Dull Moment
1967 The Trip
1967 The War Wagon
1967 Thunder Alley
1967 Violent Jouney
1968 Destroy All Monsters
1968 Isadora
1968 Parent Trap
1968 Shakiest Gun In The West
1968 The Devil’S Eight
1968 Wild In The Streets
1969 Cervantes
1969 Far From The Madding Crowd
1969 Spirits Of The Dead
1970 Dunwich Horror
1970 Savage Wild

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John Alvin (1948-2008) was a prolific artist who illustrated some of the world’s most recognisable (and collectable) movie posters.

He created movie posters for over 135 films during his career.

His first official movie poster job was was the Blazing Saddles (1974) movie poster he went on to work on a number of Brooks’ later films, including that same year Young Frankenstein (1974).

The following lists his known movie poster campaigns

10
Always
Cape Fear
Darkman
E.T.
E.T. (Advance)
E.T. (Re-Release)
The Milagro Beanfield War
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Aladdin
Aladdin (European)
Aladdin (Japanese)
Alien (15th Anniversary)
Arachnophobia
Arthur II
Batman Returns
Beauty And The Beast
Betrayed
Big Wednesday
Bite The Bullit
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
By The Sword
Cats Don’t Dance
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
City Slickers
Cobra
Cocoon
Cocoon The Return
Conrack
Deal Of The Century
Dying Young
Earnest Scared Stupid
Empire Of The Sun
Flatliners
Fritz The Cat
Gremlins
Hanover Street
Hercules (Japanese)
High Anxiety
History Of The World Part 1
Hook
Innerspace
Innocent Blood
Ironweed
Joe Vs. The Volcano
Lawrence Of Arabia
Leviathan
Lisa
Losin’ It
Mosquito Coast
Mother, Jugs, And Speed
Mr. Destiny
Mulan ( Japanese)
My Favorite Year
New Jack City
Newsies
Nickel Ride
North
Old Gringo
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
Phantom Of The Paradise
Pinocchio
Project X
Quest For Camelot
Rainman
Rancho Deluxe
Raw Deal
Red Dawn
Rescuers Down Under
Rhinestone
Royal Flash
Running Scared
S.O.B.
Serial
Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother
Shipwrecked
Short Circuit
Smile
Snow White
Solarbabies
Spaceballs
Spies Like Us
Star Trek Vi: The Undiscovered Country
Star Wars 10th Anniversary
Star Wars: The Concerts
Tai-Pan
Tall Tale
Texasville
That’s Dancing!
The Color Purple
The Fabulous Baker Boys
The Frisco Kid
The Golden Child
The Goonies
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (European)
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Japanese)
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
The Lost Boys
The Nutcracker Prince
The Princess Bride
The Three Muskateers
The Turning Point
The Twilight Zone
The Verdict
Thumbelina
Twentieth Century Fox Silent Movie
Umvd – Legend
Umvd – Melvin And Howard
Under Siege (European)
Victor/Victoria
Willow
Young Frankenstein

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Richard Amsel (1947-1985) had brilliant but short career cut short by his death at the age of 37 burst onto the scene in 1970 with his poster art for the Barbra Streisand movie “Hello, Dolly.”

He is probably best remembered for his iconic Raiders of the Lost Ark movie posters, Amsel did two separate posters for this movie, the first for its 1981 re-release and the second the re-release a year later

His style was as varied as were his movie posters, such as The Sting to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and like many talented and sort after poster artists he left his signature on may of them, in fact his signature can be found on posters for more than 30 major movies.

Chinatown (1974)
The Late Show (1977)
Beyond The Limit (1983)
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
Death On The Nile (teaser) (1978)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1982)
Lucky Lady (1975) The Sting (1974)
Hello Dolly (1968) The Shootist (1976)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Hello Dolly (1969)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Flash Gordon (1980)
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Fuzz (aka Here Come the Fuzz) (1972)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
The Dark Crystal (1982)

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During his 60+ year career he produced an astonishing volume of movie posters, his movie posters head the list for the most movie posters by an artist where the movie has won Best Picture: Casablanca (1942), My Fair Lady (1964),The Sting (1973),Ordinary People (1980),Platoon (1986), and Unforgiven (1992).

Born in 1921 Bill’s career spanned some 60 years beginning in 1940, when he got a job with Warner Bros. working in their poster department – his first two assignments were Yankee Doodle Dandy and Casablanca!

In 1947 Gold became head of the Warner’s poster department a position he would remain in until 1959 when he left to to form BG Charles with his brother, Charlie, where Bill would concentrate on poster design, and Charlie on movie trailers.

In 1962 Bill formed Bill Gold Advertising.

Bill has produced every movie poster for his close friend Clint Eastwood from 1971 to 2003. “He’s a perfect gentleman. We’re a great match cause he knows what he likes, he has fantastic creative instincts,” said Gold of the relationship. “I know what he likes.”

When Clint Eastwood presented Bill with a Lifetime Key Art Award from the Hollywood Reporter in 1994, he simply referred to Bill as “the greatest.” And in Eastwood’s speech about the posters produced for his movies “…The ones that didn’t feature a Bill Gold poster,” he said, “I regret.”

Some of his posters were for controversial movies such as A Clockwork Orange but interesting was the controversy caused by the poster he produced for the James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.

The image used for the poster was first shot on film and to achieve the ‘revealing’ nature of the bikini bottom they told the model to put them on backwards.

When the advert was published in the NY Times it was ‘censored’, the paper placing a pair of black shorts over the model. Of course that was in 1981, such modesty does not exist to the same degree today!

Perhaps one of the most ‘missed’ items on one of his most famous movie posters is for the movie Casablanca. The idea was to give it an ‘action’ movie ‘feel’ and so in the poster a gun is shown in Humphrey Bogart’s hand – in the movie he never had one!

He once said about how to create a good movie poster. “I think, simplicity…about creating an image that a movie goes will identify with that film…”

His list of movie poster credits perhaps a testament to that…

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Casablanca (1942)
Night and Day (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Escape Me Never (1947)
Winter Meeting (1948)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)
East of Eden (1955) Mister Roberts (1955)
Baby Doll (1955) Giant (1956)
Lone Ranger (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
The James Dean Story (1957)
The Pajama Game (1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Top Secret Affair (1957)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Gypsy (1962)
The Music Man (1962)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
The Great Race (1965)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Camelot (1967)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Fox (1967)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Bullitt (1968)
Funny Girl (1968)
A Dream of Kings (1969)
The Illustrated Man (1969)

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Ryan’s Daughter (1970)
Soldier Blue (1970)
Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
The Go-Between (1970)
There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
There’s a Girl in My Soup (1970)
Dorian Gray (1970)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Woodstock (1970)
Diamonds are Forever (1971)
Fiddler on the Roof (1970)
Get Carter (1970) Klute (1971)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Medicine Ball Caravan (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Joe Kidd (1972)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)
What’s Up, Doc? (1972)
Day for Night (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
O Lucky Man (1973)
Oklahoma Crude (1973)
Papillon (1973)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Scarecrow (1973)
Steel Yard Blues (1973)
The Way We Were (1973)
The Sting (1973)
The Front Page (1974)
Law and Disorder (1974)
Mame (1974)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
The Odessa File (1974)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
The Yakuza (1974)
Zandy’s Bride (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Funny Lady (1975)
Hard Times (1975)
Mahogany (1975)
Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Rafferty & the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
Rosebud (1975)
The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
The Hindenburg (1975)
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
A Matter of Time (1976)
A Star is Born All the President’s Men (1976)
The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
The Enforcer (1976)
Fellini’s Casanova (1976)
Gable and Lombard (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Portnoy’s Complaint (1976)
The Ritz (1976)
W.C. Fields and Me (1976)
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
Greased Lightning (1977)
Julia (1977)
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
The Gauntlet (1977)
The Sentinel (1977)
Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977)
Bloodbrothers (1978)
California Suite (1978)
Convoy (1978)
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Movie Movie (1978)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
The Wiz (1978)
Agatha (1979)
Alien (1979)
Chapter Two (1979)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Great Santini (1979)
Hair (1979)
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
The Bell Jar (1979)
The Promise (1979)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Bronco Billy (1980)
The Dogs of War (1980)
Fame (1980)
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
The Jazz Singer (1980)
The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Little Miss Marker (1980)
The Long Riders (1980)
The Nude Bomb (1980)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
The Stunt Man (1980)
Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Endless Love (1981)
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
The Four Seasons (1981)
Hard Country (1981)
On Golden Pond (1981)
The Funhouse (1981)
Deathtrap (1982)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Firefox (1982)
Honkytonk Man (1982) I,
The Jury (1982)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Breathless Cross Creek (1983)
Eddie Macon’s Run (1983)
Gorky Park (1983)
High Road to China (1983)
Never Say Never Again (1983)
The Sting II (1983)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Champions (1984)
City Heat (1984)
Harry and Son (1984)
Splash (1984)
The River (1984)
Tightrope (1984)
Pale Rider (1985)
Best Shot (1986)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Platoon (1986)
Hamburger Hill (1987)
Orphans (1987)
The Believers (1987)
The Untouchables (1987)
Bird (1988) Colors (1988)
The Dead Pool (1988)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Moonwalker (1988)
The Accused (1988)
The lonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
Night Visitor (1989)
Pink Cadillac (1989)

Any Which Way You Can (1980)
White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Funny About Love (1990)
State of Grace (1990)
The Field (1990)
The Rookie (1990)
FX2 (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
A Perfect World (1993)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1995)
Absolute Power (1997)
True Crime (1999)

Space Cowboys (2001)
Mystic River (2003)

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