WAY TO THE STARS

Original 1946 British 17 inch x 11 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1945 Anthony Asquith Romantic Wartime Drama THE WAY TO THE STARS, story by Terence Rattigan & Anatole de Grunwald and starring Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery, Stanley Holloway, Renne Asherson, Felix Aylmer and Basil Radford.

Taking its title from the Latin script on the Royal Air Force coat of arms – ‘Per ardua ad astra’ – its genesis lay in the RAF experiences of playwright Terence Rattigan, which he initially used in his play Flare Path. The film was originally to be titled ‘Rendezvous’.

On the reverse is the 1946 Arthur Lubin Comedy Drama A NIGHT IN PARADISE starring Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, Ray Collins, Ernest Truex, George Dolenz, John Litel, Jerome Cowan and Douglass Dumbrille.

In 560 BC King Croesus of Lydia incurs the wrath of the sorceress Queen Attossa he had promised to marry, when he chooses the beautiful Delarai of Persia instead. Attossa, in disembodied form, mocks Croesus nearly to the point of madness, so he seeks a solution from the fortune-teller Aesop, who is very young and handsome, but believes that people only receive wisdom with age, arrived from the Isle of Samos in disguise of an old man with a hunch, a limp, and a cane. But Aesop also has eyes for Delarai.

And the 1946 Maurice Elvey Romantic Drama BEWARE OF PITY, based on the novel by Stefan Zweig and starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper, Linden Travers, Emrys Jones and Ernest Thesiger.

A paraplegic mistakes a man’s pity for love.

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