CHARMANTS GARCONS

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster Proof (a trial print of the poster before the lettering is added) for the 1957 Henri Decoin Comedy CHARMANTS GARCONS starring Zizi Jeanmaire, Daniel Gélin, Henri Vidal, François Périer, Jacques Dacqmine, Marie Daems, Gil Vidal, Jacques Berthier, Gert Froebe and Madeleine Lambert.

Real-life singer Zizi Jeanmaire plays a successful night-club singer who attracts several male admirers..

The poster art is by Peter Strausfeld. Strausfeld was interned in the Isle of Man at the Onchan Internment Camp during the War where he met the Austrian producer George Hoellering. In 1947 Hoellering opened the Academy Cinema on Oxford Street and invited Strausfeld to produce some posters for the cinema which he did in wood and lino-cuts till his death in 1980.

The poster is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition.