WOMAN FOR JOE

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch 8 Page Pressbook for the 1955 George More O’Ferrall Circus Romance WOMAN FOR JOE starring Diane Cilento, George Baker, David Kossof, Jimmy Karoubi, Violet Farebrother, Earl Cameron, Sydney Tafler, Meier Tzelniker, Miriam Karlin, Terence Longdon, Arthur Lowe and Philip Stainton.

A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.

Cover art by Pino G. Dell’Orco (- 2013).
Dell’Orco began working as an illustrator from a young age, apprenticed to Enrico DeSeta, a cartoonist who later also worked on film posters before he began working for the Favalli Brothers. The Favellis ran the publicity department at Cinecitta Studios in Rome, making them the largest single production house of European film posters in the immediate post-war period.

When one of the Favalli brothers died, Dell’Orco migrated, along with many colleagues, to the D’Ami studio in Milan. The studio was set up by two brothers in 1954, Roy as illustrator and Piero as money man. In 1960, they fell out and work began to dry up, causing a number of their represented artists to find work elsewhere, mostly in London. Dell’Orco signed up with the Bryan Colmer agency and began painting book covers.

The pressbook is in very good folded condition with with some splitting along the spine.