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1960 Israel CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF Movie FILM POSTER Hebrew TAYLOR NEWMAN Jewish
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DESCRIPTION: Here for sale is an EXCEPTIONALY RARE and ORIGINAL POSTER for the ISRAEL 1960 PREMIERE release of the legendary film "CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF" in the small rural town of NATHANYA in ISRAEL. Starring PAUL NEWMAN and ELIZABETH TAYLOR to name only a few. A noce BONUS is a MATINEE with "TARZAN FINDS A SON ! " with the legendary JOHNNY WEISSMULLER . The cinema-movie
hall
"CINEMA SHARON" , A local Israeli "Cinema Paradiso" , was printing manualy its own posters , And thus you can be certain that this surviving copy is ONE OF ITS KIND. Fully DATED 1960 . Text in HEBREW and ENGLISH . Please note : This is NOT a re-release poster but PREMIERE - FIRST RELEASE projection of the film , Two years after its release in 1958 in the USA. The ISRAELI distributors of the film have given it quite archaic and amusing HEBREW text which is : " We are PROUD to present a RARE MASTERPIECE.......With glorious colors.......By the best play of the most famous American playwriter........and MORE and MORE " . GIANT size around 24" x 38" ( Not accurate ) . Printed in red and blue on white paper . The condition is very good . 2 folds. Slightly stained and a few tiny creases, Nothing which a framed glass won't hide. ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ) Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
AUTHENTICITY
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The POSTER is fully guaranteed ORIGINAL from 1960 , It is NOT a reproduction or a recently made reprint or an immitation , It holds a with life long GUARANTEE for its AUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.
PAYMENTS
: Payment method accepted : Paypal .
SHIPPMENT
: SHIPP worldwide via registered airmail is $ 25 . Poster will be sent rolled in a special protective rigid sealed tube.
Will be sent around 5 days after payment .
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
is a 1958 American
drama film
directed by
Richard Brooks
. It is based on the
Pulitzer Prize
-winning
play of the same name
by
Tennessee Williams
adapted by Richard Brooks and
James Poe
. One of the top-ten box office hits of 1958, the film stars
Elizabeth Taylor
,
Paul Newman
and
Burl Ives
. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) is the powerful, highly-charged, moving story of a neurotic, dysfunctional Southern family with its rivalries, tensions, and avarice. Its provocative screenplay by Richard Brooks and James Poe was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. [It was Williams' second Pulitzer Prize win.] MGM's posters proclaimed: "ALL THE SULTRY EXPLOSIVE DRAMA OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' PULITZER PRIZE PLAY IS NOW ON THE SCREEN." A sexually-explicit, made-for TV remake was created in 1976, starring Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Maureen Stapleton and Laurence Olivier in the lead roles. A second made-for-TV production was co-produced by pay-cable station Showtime and PBS's American Playhouse in 1984, starred Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Lange, Rip Torn, and Kim Stanley. The film, one of the top ten box-office hits of its year, was honored with six major Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Newman with his first Oscar nomination), Best Actress (Elizabeth Taylor with her second of four consecutive nominations), Best Director (Richard Brooks, who had replaced George Cukor as the film's original directorial choice), Best Adapted Screenplay (Richard Brooks and James Poe), and Best Cinematography (William H. Daniels) - but it failed to win any awards. Curiously, Burl Ives was nominated and won an Oscar in 1958 as Best Supporting Actor in
The Big Country
rather than for his performance in
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
. The play was originally directed by film director Elia Kazan, starring Ben Gazzara, Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, and Mildred Dunnock - with Ives as the only one reprising his role in the film version. Because of strict censorship Production Codes in the late 1950s at the height of Hollywood's concern about film content, all references to homosexuality and four-letter words were deleted, watered down, or obscured from the shocking, original play, and the ending was considerably changed from the original Tennessee Williams play. Major star Elizabeth Taylor was deeply affected by the tragic airplane crash death of her husband Mike Todd, only a little over a week into the shooting. Her role was as the passionate, sexually-frustrated, feline Maggie ("The Cat" in the film's title) whose advances and lustful sensuality are thwarted by the unloving temperament of her alcoholic, injured, impotent, and apathetic husband Brick (Paul Newman) who is still suffering from the suicidal death of his (homosexual) friend Skipper, and also has suffered a broken ankle. [In the play, Maggie had allegedly seduced Skipper, an instance of heterosexual infidelity - to keep their
homosexual
relationship at bay - an important plot element missing in the film.] The action occurs on the occasion of the 65th birthday of 'Big Daddy' Pollitt (Burl Ives reprising his stage role) - the patriarchal plantation head (who is secretly suffering from terminal cancer), when the greater Pollitt family gathers and inevitably quarrels - greedily - over the granting of the expected inheritance. Johnny Weissmuller (born Peter Johann Weissmüller; June 2, 1904 – January 20, 1984) was an American competition
swimmer
and actor best known for playing
Tarzan
in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five
Olympic
gold medals
for swimming and one
bronze medal
for water polo. He won fifty-two US National Championships, set sixty-seven
world records
and was purportedly undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career. After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray
Edgar Rice Burroughs
's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. His character's distinctive
Tarzan yell
is still often used in films. ebay1243