It’s spring cleaning time — so if you’ve got the wall space, Meansheets has got the movie posters! (etsy)
Category Archives: 1960s posters
Vive Sara Montiel!
It has not been a good week for high-profile women as we’ve already lost Margaret Thatcher and Annette Funicello — and it’s only Tuesday.
And now comes word that Sara Montiel, the Spanish actress of Vera Cruz and other English language films, has died at the age of 85. In terms of crossing over to the Hollywood mainstream, Ms. Montiel was before her time — however, as you can see below, her attractive portfolio of movie posters are timeless! (Tango art by Harfort (top left), Carmen by O’Kley (top middle) and Mac Gomez (top right), and La Belle De Mexico by Constantin Belinsky.) (DHD)
The Original Mad Man…
Bert Stern has worked with Hollywood’s biggest stars — and shot the movie poster for Lolita, as well as the recent Taschen book on Marilyn Monroe. And now there’s a new documentary about the photographer called Bert Stern: Original Mad Man.(Film/Art)
Let’s Get Invisible!
L’Arnaqueur or L’Arnaque?
It don’t matter if he’s hustling or stinging, it’s all French to Paul Newman…
Cannes Kind of Love…
The new poster for The 2013 Cannes Film Festival is a tribute of sorts to the 1960s Paul Newman-Joanne Woodward starrer, A New Kind of Love — although I’ve always had a deep crush on the French version by Roger Soubie (top right). (DHD)
Return of Marilyn Monroe…
Marilyn Monroe gets an Andy Warhol movie poster makeover — with these two Italian posters by Alberto Spagnoli for River of No Return.
Franco Sinatra?
We’ve seen “French” Frank Sinatra — so how ’bout these Italian beauties of Ol’ Blue Eyes? Art by Sandro Symeoni (top) and Ercole Brini (bottom). (EMP)
New Mad Men Poster
Here’s to Matthew Weiner and the boys at Mad Men — a show that details the history of advertising — for tracking down Brian Sanders, a British illustrator during the 1960s golden era of magazine ads, to draw up the new poster for this season. (NYT)
Movie Poster Museum 