Rare Film Posters

MISTER BIG

£99.50

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1943 Charles Lamont Musical Comedy MISTER BIG, based on the story by Virginia Rooks and starring Donald O’Connor, Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan and Robert Paige.

Drama students change a standard show into a lively song-and-dance performance.

Advert art by Harry Winslade (1901 – 1980). Winslade was born in Farnham, Surrey and lived for most of his adult life in Stoneleigh, Surrey. He was a painter in gouache and watercolour and also a cartoonist, at one time working for Artists Partners Agency at Hyde Park, London. From the early 1950s he began a career in the comics industry producing features for ‘Eagle’, ‘Girl’, ‘Swift’, ‘The Hornet’, ‘Wizard’, ‘Mickey Mouse Weekly’, ‘Rocket’ and ‘Express Weekly’. In 1955 he produced a series of historical paintings as carriage prints for British Rail London Midlad Region.

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

Availability: 1 in stock

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly