Original Cummings, Irving Movie Posters

Irving Cummings movie posters document Fox's most commercially reliable output of the 1930s and early 1940s — a body of original theatrical paper that represents studio-era lithography at its most polished. Find original Irving Cummings campaign materials across his musicals, comedies, and prestige productions for Shirley Temple, Betty Grable, and Alice Faye. One-sheets from his Fox productions feature the bold stone-litho colour printing that predates photographic offset reproduction — a technique that disappeared from US poster manufacturing by the late 1940s, giving pre-war Fox paper a warm, hand-crafted quality that later photographic campaigns cannot replicate. The Betty Grable wartime musicals produced lavish campaigns across one-sheets, three-sheets, and the oversized six-sheet format that Fox favoured for marquee display. Window cards from the same period, printed on card stock rather than paper, survive in relatively better condition than the paper formats and offer an accessible entry point. Lobby card sets in the large 11×14 format, issued eight to a run, are now scarce as complete sets — individual cards surface more readily than intact runs. His Shirley Temple productions from the mid-1930s, some of the most commercially successful films of the Depression era, generated three-sheets that are now among the more sought-after Fox pre-war items. Browse alongside our Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, and Michael Curtiz collections for related Fox and studio-era material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals. Browse related material in our drama posters collection.