ON THE BEACH 1-Sheet POSTER Gregory Peck AVA GARDNER Stanley Kramer TONY PERKINS

This is an ORIGINAL 1-Sheet Movie Poster measuring 27" x 41" from UNITED ARTISTS Films.Poster has some wear, splits in folds and some staple marks and tapefrom being used in a theatre. It has some edgewear and some in folds. lightstains going down the right side, andaround the edges from age. It also has writing of the date and time it played in a movie OVER 50 YEARS AGO!Opened framed would look nice as a vintage ORIGINAL Movie Poster. Has a nice distressedlook to it.This poster was used to promote the 1957 Sci-Fi Dramatic film,On the Beach The residents of Australia after a global nuclear war must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months. In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other? Director:Stanley KramerWriters:John Paxton (screenplay), Nevil Shute (novel) Stars:Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred AstaireCastGregory Peck... Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS SawfishAva Gardner... Moira DavidsonFred Astaire... Julian OsborneAnthony Perkins... Lt. Peter Holmes - Royal Australian NavyDonna Anderson... Mary HolmesJohn Tate... Adm. BridieHarp McGuire... Lt. Sunderstrom (ashore in San Diego)Lola Brooks... Lt. Hosgood (Bridie's secretary)Ken Wayne... Lt. BensonGuy Doleman... Lt. Cmdr. FarrelRichard Meikle... DavisJohn Meillon... Ralph Swain (ashore in San Francisco)Joe McCormick... Ackerman (radiation sickness)Lou Vernon... Bill Davidson (Moira's father)Kevin Brennan... Dr. King (radiation diagnosis)GreatOriginal United Artists film, from an acclaimed Director.Great for the classic Hollywood film lover or screening room!Shop with confidence! This is part of our in-store inventory from our shop which is has been located in the heart of Hollywood where we have been in business for OVER40 years!Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message movies", and becoming one of the nation's most respected filmmakers. As an independent producer and director, he distinguished himself and his films by bringing attention to topical social issues that most studios avoided. Among the subjects covered in his films were racism, nuclear war, greed, creationism vs. evolution and the causes and effects of fascism.Despite the controversial subjects of his films, many of which received mixed reviews, the film industry nonetheless recognized their importance and quality during most of his career, awarding his films sixteen Academy Awards and eighty nominations. He was nominated nine times as either producer or director.His notable films include High Noon (1952, as producer), The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). After a string of unsuccessful productions in the 1970s, he retired from films.Director Steven Spielberg described him as an "incredibly talented visionary," and "one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world." Kramer was recognized for his fierce independence as a producer-director, with author Victor Navasky writing that "among the independents . . . none seemed more vocal, more liberal, more pugnacious than young Stanley Kramer." Kramer agreed: "I tried to make movies that lasted about issues that would not go away."In 1961 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award and in 1998 was awarded the first NAACP Vanguard Award "in recognition of the strong social themes that ran through his body of work." In 2002, the Stanley Kramer Award was created, to be given to recipients for work that "dramatically illustrates provocative social issues."It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)After the seriousness of his previous films, Kramer "felt compelled to answer" for the "lack of lightness" in his earlier films, writes Spoto. As a result, he directed It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), a film with a "gifted, wacky crew of comedians." Kramer describes it as a "comedy about greed." According to one writer, he directed it "to prove he could also handle comedy," and hired many of the leading comedic actors of the previous decades, from silent star Buster Keaton to emerging talent Jonathan Winters. Winters would later write that "Kramer was a man who took chances—as they say, he worked without a net."It played to mixed reviews, with some criticizing its excessive comedy with too many comedians, thereby losing its focus. Nonetheless, it was Kramer's biggest box office hit, and the public enjoyed its "socially disruptive and goofy" story and acting. Film critic Dwight Macdonald writes that its "small army of actors—105 speaking roles—inflict mayhem on each other with cars, planes, explosives and other other devices . . . is simply too much for the human eye and ear to respond to, let alone the funny bone," calling it "hard-core slapstick." It was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning for Best Sound Editing.MORE INFO ON GREGORY PECK: Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003) was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1990s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finchin the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won his Academy Award.President Lyndon Johnsonhonored Peck with the Presidential Medal of Freedomin 1969 for his lifetimehumanitarianefforts. In 1999, the American Film Institutenamed Peck among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at #12Peck was born Eldred Gregory Peck in San Diego, California's seaside community ofLa Jolla, the son of Missouri- born Bernice Mae "Bunny" Ayres and Gregory Pearl Peck, who was a chemist and pharmacist. Peck's father was of English (paternal) and Irish (maternal) heritage, and his mother was of Scots (paternal) and English (maternal) ancestry. Peck's father was a Catholicand his mother converted upon marrying his father. Peck's Irish-born paternal grandmother, Catherine Ashe, was related toThomas Ashe, who took part in the Easter Risingfewer than three weeks after Peck's birth and died while onhunger strikein 1917. Peck's parents divorced by the time he was six years old and he spent the next few years being raised by his maternal grandmother.Peck was sent to aRoman Catholicmilitary school, St. John's Military Academy, inLos Angelesat the age of 10. His grandmother died while he was enrolled there, and his father again took over his upbringing. At 14, Peck attendedSan Diego High Schooland lived with his father. When he graduated, he enrolled briefly at San Diego State Teacher's College, (now known asSan Diego State University), joined the track team, took his first theatre and public-speaking courses, and joined theEpsilon Etafraternity. He stayed for just one academic year, thereafter obtaining admission to his first-choice college, theUniversity of California, Berkeley. For a short time, he took a job driving a truck for an oil company. In 1936, he declared himself a pre-medical student at Berkeley, and majored in English. Since he was 6'3" and very strong, he also decided to row on the university crew.Partly because of Peck's stature, the Berkeley acting coach decided Peck would be perfect for university theater work. Peck developed an interest in acting and was recruited byEdwin Duerr, director of the university's Little Theater. He went on to appear in five plays during his senior year. Although his tuition fee was only $26 a year, Peck still struggled to pay, and had to work as a "hasher" (kitchen helper) for the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority in exchange for meals. Peck would later say about Berkeley that, "it was a very special experience for me and three of the greatest years of my life. It woke me up and made me a human being." In 1997, he donated $25,000 to the Berkeley crew in honor of his coach, the renownedKy Ebright.After graduating from Berkeley with a BA degree in English, Peck dropped the name "Eldred" and headed toNew York Cityto study at theNeighborhood Playhousewith the legendary acting teacherSanford Meisner. He was often broke and sometimes slept inCentral Park. He worked at the 1939World's Fairand as a tour guide forNBC's television broadcasting.He made hisBroadwaydebut as the lead inEmlyn Williams'The Morning Starin 1942. His second Broadway performance that year was inThe Willow and IwithEdward Pawley. Peck's acting abilities were in high demand duringWorld War II, since he was exempt from military service owing to a back injury suffered while receiving dance and movement lessons fromMartha Grahamas part of his acting training.Twentieth Century Foxclaimed he had injured his back while rowing at university, but in Peck's words, "In Hollywood, they didn't think a dance class was macho enough, I guess. I've been trying to straighten out that story for years."In 1949, Peck foundedThe La Jolla Playhouse, at his birthplace, along with his friendsMel FerrerandDorothy McGuire. This local community theater and landmark (now in a new home at theUniversity of California, San Diego) still thrives today. It has attractedHollywoodfilm stars on hiatus both as performers and enthusiastic supporters since its inception.inGentleman's Agreement(1947)Peck's first film,Days of Glory, was released in 1944. He was nominated for theAcademy AwardforBest Actorfive times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting: forThe