Spanish title: La Guerra Y La Paz
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oscar Homolka, Anita Ekberg, John Mills, Helmut Dantine, Barry Jones, Anna Maria Ferrero, Milly Vitale, Jeremy Brett
Directed by: King Vidor
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

"Based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy"

This Dino DeLaurentis epic features a lobby card that’s a bit of a rarity: the portrait design. Unlike the usual ‘landscape’ design, in which the lobby card is wider than it is high, this one is turned 90 degrees clockwise, like a mini-movie poster. It’s also printed on much thinner stock (in fact, it’s paper rather than cardboard), which gives the colors a much brighter tinge. The copy in our collection is in surprisingly good shape, considering how easy it would be to damage.

The artwork in the design is all original, but it’s not as well done as many other lobby cards, with Audrey Hepburn coming off looking like she’s seven feet tall, with a giraffe’s neck and cleavage that would make Isaac Newton throw away his notepad.

Apparently, the first draft of this screenplay came out at over 500 pages – five times what a normal screenplay would run to. The film was so epic in nature that 65 doctors were hired to play soldiers in the battle scenes, just in case any extras were injured and needed immediate care. Audrey Hepburn was paid $350,000 for her role – the highest fee for any actress to the point in history.

I thought it was a little overplayed… but that’s me. 

Spanish title: Deliciosa Pecadora (Delicious Woman)
Stars: Ann Margret, Tony Franciosa, Robert Coote, Yvonne Romain, Horace McMahon
Directed by: George Sidney
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

"A woman who is fascinating to the end; see her dance as never before"

If you can’t enjoy Ann Margret strutting her strutter about in this campy exploitation flick of the ’60’s, you’re either not male, or you don’t have a pulse.

The story follows a hard-working, clean-living female journalist who, in an attempt to get a steamy sex story published in Girl-Lure Magazine, poses as a ’swinger’. That entails doing a little striptease, being generally slutty, having orgies while covered in paint, and demonstrating what so often is now erroneously called ‘girl power’.

Let’s be clear; there’s nothing much to this film other than the chance to ogle Ann Margret, and the lobby card used for its Mexican release reflects that pretty solidly.

This particular lobby card is a little beaten up – the corners have been knocked about, and there’s a pair of pinholes on the sides, but none of it impedes the most important parts of the card design… those belonging to ‘The Swinger’.

Spanish title: No Soy Para Ti
Stars: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb, Barry Coe, Thomas Gomez
Directed by: Walter Lang
Distributor: Paramount Pictures

"HE… too mature. SHE… too tender. The romantic history of an
attractive theater producer and his young secretary!"

A triple Golden Globe nominee, including for Best Picture: Comedy, But Not For Me tells the tale of a 30-year Broadway producer who decides to throw in his career, leading his secretary to tell him she has long loved him, which he then in turn uses as the basis of a hit show… starring the secretary.

Admittedly, it’s not groundbreaking cinema, but But Not For Me was based on a Samson Raphaelson play from 1935 called Accent of Youth, and it certainly is a deliciosa comedia romantica.

The design for the Mexican lobby card promoting the film is a great example of the best and worst of South American lobby card art, in that the closeup of Gable is a tremendously done piece of painted art, while the portrait of Carroll Baker looks like it was done in ten minutes at the end of a tough deadline.

This particular lobby card in our collection is in amazing mint condition – no pinholes, no tears, no broken corners.. it’s perhaps the most perfect lobby card in the gallery.