LET GEORGE DO IT

Original British 10 inch x 8 inch Still of GEORGE FORMBY in the 1940 Marcel Varnel Ealing Studios Comedy LET GEORGE DO IT starring George Formby, Phyllis Calvert, Garry Marsh, Romney Brent, Bernard Lee and Coral Browne.

The first of Ealing’s comedies to deal directly with Germany and the war. George and ukelele are waiting for the train to Blackpool; a mix-up takes him to Norway, mistaken for an intelligence redcruit.

Poster Produced 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.

Poster art by Lambda (1911 – 1995). Sculptor and writer, born in Budapest, Hungary, to professional parents, his mother a psychoanalyst, a student of Sigmund Freud who later sat to Lambda for the portrait in the Freud Museum. Lambda studied medicine; sculpture in Paris and Prague; then after some success exhibiting moved to London in 1938. During World War II he worked for the Crown Film Unit and wrote propaganda scripts for the BBC. After the war joined Imperial Chemical Industries, engaged in industrial design, notably with the new material Perspex, in which he sculpted.

Printed by Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London

The poster is in very good folded condition with separation along the right end of the horizontal fold.