Original Anthony, Joseph Movie Posters

Joseph Anthony movie posters document the Broadway director whose Hollywood work includes The Rainmaker and The Matchmaker — producing several well-regarded studio films of the late 1950s and early 1960s that captured stage performances and material with cinematic intelligence.

Anthony's most significant film work came through his ability to translate theatrical material for the screen with minimal loss of dramatic vitality. The Rainmaker (1956), with Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn, adapted N. Richard Nash's play about a con man who brings rain and romance to a drought-stricken farm — a Paramount production of considerable warmth and genuine chemistry between its leads. The theatrical campaign reflects the film's romantic register with the warmth of mid-50s American studio design.

Career (1959), a Dean Martin vehicle about an actor's struggle to break through in New York, and The Matchmaker (1958), with Shirley Booth and Anthony Perkins — adapted from the Thornton Wilder play that later became Hello, Dolly! — round out his most notable theatrical films. His stage work continued alongside his film career, maintaining the connection to live performance that informed his screen direction. Original 1950s Paramount one-sheets from his theatrical adaptations are genuinely scarce in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from his Hollywood studio period, when Broadway adaptations brought the best stage performers to a wider American audience.

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