poster on linen THE LONG HOT SUMMER 1958 US3sht ORIGINAL LINENBACKED Paul Newman

Description: HUGE Original 1958 theatrical USA THREE SHEET (41 inches x 81 inches) movie poster used for marketing films in theaters in America. On Linen Backing in VERY GOOD condition. Age-approriate appearance with natural fold and edge wear. Nicely backed, displays well. A restored poster with bright color and clean appearance. Airbrushing to parts of the borders and folds has corrected fold wear, chips, and pinholes. Minor color touchup is applied to parts of the blue border. Bright and beautiful, romantic color imagery. Linen Border is about one to two inches outside the actual paper border edge. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you.1958. Directed by MARTIN RITT, novel by WILLIAM FAULKNER. TAGLINE : "The red-hot lowdown on a southern family...that people talked about in whispers!" - Screen debut for legendary screen team and real life husband and wife, PAUL NEWMAN & JOANNE WOODWARD. One of Hollywood's best personal and professional partnerships - Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners. Sixty-one year old widower Will Varner (Orson Welles), in ill health, owns many businesses and property in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, including a plantation. To him, his children are a disappointment, who he sees as not being able to carry on the Varner name in the style to which he has built around it. Son Jody (Anthony Francoisa) has no ambition and does not work, spending much of his time fooling around with his seductive wife, Eula (Lee Remick). He finds 23-year-old daughter Clara (Joanne Woodward) clever, but he feels she also wastes her time on more contemplative pursuits. While most of her contemporaries are married, Clara has been dating Alan Stewart (Richard Anderson), a genteel mama's boy, for six years. Will would not mind Alan so much if he too thought Alan had a bit of a forceful man in him, which he could demonstrate by actually asking Clara to marry him. Conversely, Jody laments that nothing he does is ever good enough for his father, while Clara plain does not like the way he treats them. Into their lives comes Ben Quick (Paul Newman), who Jody hired while Will was hospitalized, to do some sharecropping on currently vacant land. Despite Will believing the unsubstantiated stories that Ben burned down someone's barn as an act of vengeance, Will becomes to view Ben as the son he never had, as he is much the same mold. As such, Will does whatever he can to get Ben to be part of the family to carry on the Varner name the way Will wants it be, which means marrying Clara. Through the process, Clara may come to a realization about what she really wants in life, while Jody does whatever he can to retain his position in the family. CAST includes Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Richard Anderson, Mabel Albertson, Sarah Marshall, J Pat O'Malley, Val Avery. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : Director Martin Ritt was forever known after this movie as the man who tamed Orson Welles. During filming, Ritt drove Welles to a local swamp, kicked him out of the car and forced him to find his own way back. The success of this movie helped Martin Ritt reestablish himself as a major director following his five-year blacklisting from Hollywood. During post-production, Director Martin Ritt found that it was nearly impossible to understand any of Orson Welles' dialogue. He and his team worked overtime to improve what they could through post-dubbing. Some cast members thought that Welles had done it quite deliberately as a way to show contempt for the "mumbling" method actors of the Actors Studio, but no one could ever be sure. Martin Ritt met Paul Newman while teaching at the Actors Studio. The rest of the main cast also consisted of former Actors Studio alumni, including Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa and Lee Remick.

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