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6b1079 WEST SIDE STORY 1sh R1963 Academy Award winning classic musical, great Joseph Caroff art!

Date Sold 3/12/2024
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A 1963 Re-Release Folded One-Sheet Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More)

West Side Story, the classic 1961 Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (winners of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) New York City romantic dance musical ("The screen achieves one of the great entertainments in the history of motion pictures"; "'Best Picture' Winner of 10 Academy Awards 1961"; "Based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince" winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; with a sentimental script by Ernest Lehman, which borrows heavily from "Romeo & Juliet"; based on a book by Arthur Laurents) starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and George Chakiris (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film). The wonderful music was by Leonard Bernstein and the equally wonderful lyrics were by Stephen Sondheim. Note that Natalie Wood's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon (who had also dubbed The King and I and The Sound of Music), and Richard Beymer's singing was dubbed as well. Recordings exist of some of Natalie Wood's singing, and she absolutely would have been fine, but Hollywood demands perfection!
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Artist: Joseph Caroff
Important Added Info: Note that the posters for this classic movie are incredibly confusing, and this poster makes things even more confusing, which could probably fill a book with all its complexities! To re-cap, there was a "pre-Academy Awards" poster in 1961. After the Academy Awards were held, many of these original release posters had a small square paper snipe added, noting that it won the Best Picture Academy Award (oddly, there was NOT a "post-Awards" one-sheet created with the artwork in 1962). Then, in 1963, posters were printed with the original art, and with the "Best Picture" box, and with the original NSS number in the bottom right and stamped on the back, but with a 1963 litho number (apparently they re-used the same plates, and added the box and the new litho number to them). Why they did this is beyond us, because, as long as they were changing the litho number, they could easily have changed the NSS number as well.

Condition: good to very good. The poster has marker writing on the back that slightly bleeds through to the front at lower right just under the horizontal fold edge (see our image) and some light fold and border wear. It is otherwise in pretty nice condition and after linenbacking with some proper restoration to that area the poster will look great!
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