JULIETTA

Original 1955 Italian 39 inch x 55 inch 2-Fogli Poster for the 1953 Marc Allegret Romantic Comedy JULIETTA, based on a novel by Louis De Vilmorin and starring Dany Robin, Jean Marais, Jeanne Moreau, Denis Grey, and Bernard Lancret.

Julietta Valendor is a romantic and dreamy girl who accepts with difficulty the fifty-year-old very worldly prince of Alpen chosen by her mother for her fiancé. One day she is given the opportunity to meet the man of her dreams in the person of lawyer André Landrecourt.

Poster art by Anselmo Ballester (1897 – 1974). Anselmo Ballester is widely regarded as one of the greatest film poster artists of all time. During Ballester’s long career he created posters not only for Italian film studios but for international film studios as well. After perfecting his style at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome Ballester founded the agency BCM with two other prominent Italian poster artists, Alfredo Capitani and Luigi Martinati and, over the years, these three men created some of the finest poster art ever produced. Ballester produced over 500 posters, with his great attention to detail, from the late 1910s through to the 1960s.

The poster is in very good folded condition.