Original Axelrod, George Movie Posters

George Axelrod movie posters document the screenwriter behind The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and The Manchurian Candidate — a playwright, screenwriter, and occasional director whose witty, adult, and often satirical sensibility put him at the forefront of Hollywood's engagement with new social freedoms and cultural anxieties.

Axelrod's screenwriting credits include some of the most significant films of his era. His adaptation of his own Broadway hit for Billy Wilder's The Seven Year Itch (1955) — producing Marilyn Monroe's most iconic moment — established him as a writer of commercial intelligence and genuine wit. Bus Stop (1956), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) — perhaps the most politically charged Hollywood film of the Kennedy era — demonstrate a range that few Hollywood writers of the period could match.

As a director, Lord Love a Duck (1966) is his most personal statement: a sharp satire of Southern California culture and the American dream of reinvention, with Tuesday Weld in a remarkable performance. The theatrical materials from his writing credits span some of the most celebrated film campaigns of the 1950s and 60s, each reflecting the distinct visual identity of its production. Original US theatrical paper from his Billy Wilder collaborations is now increasingly difficult to source.

Find original theatrical prints from all the films he wrote and directed.

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