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Auction: 24013 - Original Vintage Film Posters
Lot: 52

My Fair Lady (1964)
Original Italian poster, style A. First Italian release 1965
Featuring art by: Guiliano Nistri (dates unknown)

Photographer: Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)

Unframed: 26 1/2 x 36 5/8 in. (67.3 x 93 cm)

Linen backed

This American musical was written by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor. It was an adapted of the famous stage musical, which was based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle, and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, and features fantastic musical numbers. The film won eight Academy Awards.

Excellent condition, colours remaining very bright, very minor restoration to folds.

Material of piece: Paper, backed on linen


literature: Film Posters of the 60s, Aurum Press Limited, 1997, p. 120/121

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