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This is an ORIIGNAL RARER STYLE Rolled ART DECO Type ILLUSTRATION 1-Sheet Movie Poster GOOD Shape, slight edgewear, Never used or hung, for the popular 1984 motion picture, The Cotton Club Director: Francis Ford Coppola Screenplay by William Kennedy & Francis Ford Coppola It was the jazz age. It was an era of elegance and violence. The action was gambling. The stakes were life and death. more The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famousOne of Francis Coppola's best and underrated films The entire cast included: Richard Gere ... Dixie Dwyer Gregory Hines ... Sandman Williams Diane Lane ... Vera Cicero Lonette McKee ... Lila Rose Oliver Bob Hoskins ... Owney Madden James Remar ... Dutch Schultz Nicolas Cage ... Vincent Dwyer Allen Garfield ... Abbadabba Berman Fred Gwynne ... Frenchy Demange Gwen Verdon ... Tish Dwyer Lisa Jane Persky ... Frances Flegenheimer Maurice Hines ... Clay Williams Julian Beck ... Sol Weinstein Novella Nelson ... Madame St. Clair Laurence Fishburne ... Bumpy Rhodes (as Larry Fishburne) Poster has not been folded like the 1-Sheets of it's time. Hard pressed to find this Advance Teaser issue. Nice if you liked this prohibition Crime Drama!MORE INFO ON RICHARD GERE: Humanitarian and actor, Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia. The second of five children, his father, Homer, was an insurance salesman, and his mother was Doris. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967, and won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he majored in philosophy. He left college after two years to pursue acting, landing a lead role in the London production of the rock musical "Grease" in 1973. The following year he would be in other plays, such as "Taming of the Shrew." Onscreen, he had a few roles, and gained recognition in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Offscreen, he spent 1978 meeting Tibetans when he traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to many monks and lamas. Returning to the US, on Broadway he portrayed a concentration-camp prison er in "Bent," for which he received the 1980 Theatre World Award . Back in Hollywood, he played the title role in American Gigolo (1980), establishing himself as a major star; this status was reaffirmed by An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). In the early 1980s, Richard went to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (amidst ongoing wars and political violence); he traveled with a doctor and visited refugee camps. It is said that he was romantically linked with lovely Brazilian painter Sylvia Martins . In 1990 Richard teamed up with Julia Roberts to star in the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990); his cool reserve was the perfect complement to Julia's bubbling enthusiasm. The film captured the nation's heart, and won the People's Choice award for Best Movie. Fans clamored for years for a sequel, or at least another pairing of Julia and Richard. They got their with Runaway Bride (1999), which was a runaway success (Richard got $12 million, Julia made $17 million, the box office was $152 million, which shows what happens when you give the public what it wants!). Offscreen, Richard and Cindy Crawford got married December 12, 1991 (they were divorced in 1995). Afterwards, Richard started dating actress Carey Lowell . They had a son, Home... read more

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