Al Hirschfeld was perhaps the most famous caricaturist in American life, known especially for his light, comical black-and-white portraits of Broadway theatre stars prior to his death in 2003. But during the 1930’s and 40’s, he got his start working on movie posters and did quite a number of them featuring The Marx Bros. His career was so illustrious in fact that in 1996, they even made an Oscar-nominated documentary about him called The Line King!
When people think of Norman Rockwell, they typically think of his old Saturday Evening Post covers of Americana and the Four Freedoms series. But he also did a few movie posters back in the day.
What I also love, too, is that you can see his signature on each one!
Another solid series of poster books was published by Graham Marsh and Tony Nourmand, owner of The Reel Poster Gallery in London. Each edition covers the best one-sheets of its respective decade and unearths some real finds.
Movie Poster Museum 