From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Objects Collection
Movie Posters- Showboat
Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads:Ava Gardner Howard Keel Kathrn Grayson Joe E. Brown, "Showboat", Music Jerome Kern, Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Filmed in 1951 In Color. Rated G. For everyone (on Front) Considered to be John Ford's Great Western, Lee Marvin. James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", Filmed in 1962, Rated PG (on Back)
Details
71.12 cm / 2.333333333 ft / 28 in x 55.88 cm / 1.833333333 ft / 22 in
The posters are water stained and torn. Hints of mold on the posters and holes from where they have been tacked up to a wall. Color is faded.
MDIHS: Sound School House Row 3 Unit 2 Shelf 5, Artifact Box 52
