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The Ten Most Valuable Oscar Best Picture Posters (2/20/09)
wings-1sheet-aWinning an Oscar may or may not catapult stars or director to greater things, but it most certainly tends to … More >>

Shy Oscar Rarely Comes to Market (2/17/09)
The Academy Award of Merit, otherwise universally known as the Oscar.Some of the rarest—and most sought-after—pieces of movie memorabilia are the statuettes given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts … More >>

Out-of-This-World Poster Artist Bob McCall (1/30/09)
The Style A poster for the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” done in different sizes, depicts the wheel-shaped Space Station One, is the most common.By Allan Maurer WorthPoint Worthologist Science fiction superstar Isaac Asimov once called Bob McCall “the nearest thing we have to an artist-in-residence … More >>

Hollywood Museums in Vietnam and Ohio (12/1/08)
The movie poster for “A Christmas Story.” The movie came out 25 years ago, but has a huge following, and now, the house in Cleveland, Ohio, where the exterior shots were taken is a museum dedicated to the movie.Hollywood Museums in Vietnam and Ohio By Allan Maurer The interest in movie memorabilia stretches from Cleveland, Ohio to Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam. More >>

Hap Hadley Posters (11/18/08)
Hadley’s poster for the Oscar-winning 1928 Charlie Chaplin, “The Circus.” Hadley’s soulful depiction of the Little Tramp reflected his background as a caricaturist and cartoonist.Poster Artists: Alvan “Hap” Hadley By Allan Maurer More >>

Hand Drawn Movie Posters (11/12/08)
Loew’s staff artists Charles Reese Collier and Sid Smith captured the mood of each film by drawing highly expressive portraits of the stars in scenes from the film, which they based on stills provided by the studio. Hand drawn movie posters By Allan Maurer The magazine Architectural Digest has an interesting piece about the hand-drawn chalk and paint movie posters by staff artists Charles Reese Collier and Sid Smith for Loew’s Grand Theatre on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. More >>

James Bond Memorabilia (11/4/08)
Poster for the James Bond movie Experts Say James Bond Memorabilia Value is Rising By Allan Maurer Reuters reports that the value of James Bond memorabilia has “shot up.” “There is a high level of collector interest in original Bond movie posters,” Astrid Zweynert writes. More >>

100 Horror Film Posters (10/30/08)
A poster from the horrow movie 100 Horror Film Posters By Allan Maurer Now here’s a treat. Andrew Lindstrom’s blog “Well Medicated” displays 100 horror film posters. More >>

The Bride of Frankenstein (10/29/08)
The 1-sheet from Universal Universal Horror: The Bride of Frankenstein By Allan Maurer Beginning in the silent era with “Phantom of the Opera” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame” with Lon Chaney, Sr., Universal Pictures made a series of classic horror films starring the Frankenstein monster, Dracula, the Werewolf, the Mummy, and the Invisible Man that ran through the 1940s. More >>

Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters (10/28/08)
Abbott & Costello Meet FrankensteinAbbott & Costello Meet the Monsters By Allan Maurer There are those who felt the series of Abbott & Costello meet the monsters films that began with “Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein” in 1948 and continuing through “Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy” in 1955 were an inglorious end to the Universal Studios monster series. More >>

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