Original Bacon, Lloyd Movie Posters

Lloyd Bacon movie posters document one of Warner Bros.'s most productive directors of the pre-Code sound era — the craftsman who directed some of the most celebrated early Hollywood musicals and who defined the visual vocabulary of Warner Bros. genre filmmaking at the studio's peak creative period.

Bacon's work with Busby Berkeley on 42nd Street (1933) produced one of the defining films of the early sound musical: the backstage story that launched the studio's dance spectacular cycle, with Berkeley's kaleidoscopic choreography establishing a visual template for musical filmmaking that persisted for decades. Footlight Parade (1933) followed immediately, again with Berkeley, and the theatrical materials from both films — lobby cards, one-sheets, window cards from the pre-Code era — are among the most graphically exuberant in American film poster history.

Bacon's range extended well beyond the musical: The Oklahoman, crime dramas, war films, and comedies all fell within his competent and efficient scope. He directed James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, and Ruby Keeler in multiple Warner Bros. productions, his theatrical materials capturing the specific visual energy of 1930s Hollywood at its most vital and commercially adventurous. Original Warner Bros. one-sheets from his pre-Code musical run are genuinely scarce in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from this golden-age Hollywood filmmaker whose work at Warner Bros. defined the studio musical's early sound era.

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