MGM Posters

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MGM Posters: The Golden Years provides a decade-by-decade visual history of MGM, featuring arresting examples of every film genre and virtually every major star of Holly-vviood's Golden Age. Like the movies they represent, these posters demonstrate a stylistic evolution in response to changing trends and audience expectations. Here, in the exciting medium of poster art, are MGM's legendary stars and one-hit wonders, the classics and the time-wasters, brought together for the first time in a beautiful volume.
There was no Hollywood dream factory greater than Metro-Goldvi?yn-Mayer, home of the greatest and most glamorous stars, including Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and Ehzabeth Taylor. Created in 1924 when Metro Pictures merged with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions, MGM reigned as the most prestigious studio in the decades that followed. Although the gloss and glamor seemed effortless, MGM relied heavily upon the skills of many unsung heroes... Tovább

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MGM Posters: The Golden Years provides a decade-by-decade visual history of MGM, featuring arresting examples of every film genre and virtually every major star of Holly-vviood's Golden Age. Like the movies they represent, these posters demonstrate a stylistic evolution in response to changing trends and audience expectations. Here, in the exciting medium of poster art, are MGM's legendary stars and one-hit wonders, the classics and the time-wasters, brought together for the first time in a beautiful volume.
There was no Hollywood dream factory greater than Metro-Goldvi?yn-Mayer, home of the greatest and most glamorous stars, including Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and Ehzabeth Taylor. Created in 1924 when Metro Pictures merged with Goldwyn Pictures and Louis B. Mayer Productions, MGM reigned as the most prestigious studio in the decades that followed. Although the gloss and glamor seemed effortless, MGM relied heavily upon the skills of many unsung heroes behind the cameras, who had the task of creating visually striking advertising that could duplicate the class and quality of the films produced by the studio.
To live up to the studio's well-known slogan, "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven," some of the finest contemporary American illustrators—such as Al Hirschfeld, Alberto Vargas, and Armando Seguso—were hired to create what are now recognized as some of the best examples of cinematic poster art. Once considered disposable, limited use items, these posters are now eagerly sought afl:er, some of them commanding spectacular prices. In 1991 a poster from King Kong was auctioned for more than $100,000, and a Wizard ofOz poster sold for $10,000 in 1993. Experts predict that before the century's end, the most coveted posters will sell for $250,000 or more, drawing the same bids as many great works of art. Vissza