FRIEDA

Original British 20 inch x 30 inch Double Crown Poster for the 1947 Basil Dearden Ealing Studios Drama FRIEDA, written by Ronald Millar and starring Mai Zetterling, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Glynis Johns, Albert Lieven, Barbara Everest, Gladys Henson, Ray Jackson, Gerard Heinz and Arthur Howard.

An RAF officer brings home a German bride at the end of the war and experiences the disapproval of family and friends.

Poster art by S John Woods

S John Woods worked for Fox in the 1930s, designed posters for the Old Vic, Covent Garden and Sadlers Wells before joining Ealing Studios’ advertising department in 1943 employing well known artists to design their posters.

Printed by Graphic Reproductions Ltd. (Ealing’s main printer through the 1940s and 1950s).

The poster is in good to very good unfolded (rolled) condition with slight creasing down the left edge.