IT HAPPENED IN ROME

Original British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1956 Antonio Pietrangeli Comedy IT HAPPENED IN ROME (SOUVENIR D’ITALIE) starring June Laverick, Isabelle Corey, Ingeborg Schoner, Gabriele Ferzetti, Massimo Girotti, Antonio Cifariello, Isabel Jeans, Mario Carotenuto, Vittorio De Sica and Alberto Sordi.

Three girls find romance and excitement while traveling through Italy.

Poster art by Renato Fratini (1932 – 1973). An Italian commercial artist who specialised in cinema posters. In Italy he worked in Augusto Favalli’s studio, a major producer of Italian posters. He then moved to London at the behest of Eric Pulford, who ran the Downton agency, which had accounts with Rank and several other film companies. There Fratini enjoyed a successful career throughout the 1960s.

Printed by W.F. Clifford

The poster is in very good folded condition.