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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Now Playing - 1950


Forgive the unannounced intermission between this and my last post of two weeks ago. We’re back with another magazine ad, this time for “Father of the Bride” (1950). Directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Joan Bennett, we see that the ad mentions some names, but does not flood the graphics with paragraphs of superlatives or critics’ “thumbs up” the way a lot of modern ads do.

Here we have what was usual for those days; an artist’s rendering to capture the essence of the movie. No actual photographed images of the stars, but a stylized drawing. The film, appropriately, was released in June of that year.

2 comments:

Laura said...

Welcome back! My girls just watched this film a couple weekends ago. :)

I love the trivia that Amy from the Hepburn LITTLE WOMEN is playing the mother of the Amy from the Allyson LITTLE WOMEN in this film.

Love the ad. Old movie posters and magazine ads are such fun to look at.

Best wishes,
Laura

Jacqueline T. Lynch said...

Thanks, Laura. Hey, I never thought about that "Little Women" connection. That's pretty good trivia.

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