HERE COMES MR. JORDAN

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1941 Alexander Hall Comedy HERE COMES MR. JORDAN, based on the play “Heaven Can Wait” by Harry Segall and starring Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, James Gleason and Edward Everett Horton.

Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.

Poster art by Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003). An American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with 4 staple holes along the one vertical centre fold.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.
The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.