ARE YOU LOOKING TO BUY MOVIE POSTERS OR RELATED ITEMS? We are the world's leading auctioneer of movie posters and related items. You are currently on one of our non-auction pages. We hold 4,000 to 5,000 auctions every FOUR WEEKS. To learn more about our auctions, click here. To register to bid on our auctions, click here.

About eMoviePoster.com:

In the past 32 years, we have auctioned MORE movie paper for MORE money than ANY other auction company, period!

EVERY item we auction starts at $1, with NO reserve, and NO buyers premium, and EVERY item is honestly described, with an unenhanced super-sized image!

We charge consignors the lowest rates of ANY major auction, and we have held over 1,834,000 online auctions!

Go to our current auctions in our Auction Galleries, and you will quickly see why we are the most trusted auction site!

eMoviePoster.com was founded in 1999 as the first all-movie poster auction website. We have auctioned well over 1.8 MILLION posters (movie and NON-movie), lobby cards, stills and related items through our auctions since 1999, surely the most of any online auction!

eMoviePoster.com

eMoviePoster.com - The most trusted vintage original movie poster site & the only major online auction with no buyers premiums!

What are the objects in the corners of some images? Learn More
Login or Register to see large images.
Auction History Result

#291 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS style B 1/2sh '57

Date Sold 11/19/2002
Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price.


Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Style B Half-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 22" x 28") (Learn More)

Sweet Smell of Success, the classic 1957 Alexander Mackendrick New York City newspaper gossip columnist press agent romantic film noir family relationship melodrama ("Pour it on, sonny, pour it on... tell J.J. the latest dirt for his morning column... sixty million avid readers are waiting... tell him about the Senator and the blonde... tell him about that crooner who smokes that 'crazy' brand... pour it on sonny... light his cigarettes and make with the jokes... keep him amused - and try to forget what he's going to do to you when you tell him about his kid sister!"; "Tonight's gossip... tomorrow's gospel!"; "Beware these 'gentlemen' of the press!"; "'C'mon baby... do it for me, baby... go to him!'"; "'There's no woman for me Susie, you know that... you're my own sister!'"; "The world-famed columnist who commands sixty million readers... He can make a star, break a senator or 'fix' a politician - in ten words or less! And this is the kid who had ideas about taking over!"; "The motion picture that will never be forgiven - or forgotten!"; "They know him - and they shiver - the big names of Broadway, Hollywood and Capitol Hill. They know J.J. - the world-famed columnist whose gossip is gospel to sixty million readers! They know the venom that flickers in those eyes behind the glasses - and they fawn - like Sid Falco, the kid who wanted 'in' so much, he'd sell out his own girl to stand up there with J.J., sucking in the sweet smell of success! This is J.J.'s story - but not the way he would have liked it told!"; "The almighty J.J. ...the columnist with sixty million believers ...his wrath is feared by the great and near great who worship the Sweet Smell of Success!"; "J.J.- to 60,000,000 readers ...a hell on earth to the celebrities -the senators -every big name who squirmed in his squeezing fist!"; "..ask Sid- who'd sell anything to stand up there with J.J. -and suck in the sweet smell of success"; "This is the story of J.J. -But no the way he wants it told!"; "Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman"; "From the Novelette by Ernest Lehman"; with some of the wildest dialog ever heard in any movie!) starring Burt Lancaster ("as the world famous columnist, J.J. Hunsecker"), Tony Curtis ("as Sidney Falco, the kid who wanted 'in'"), Susan Harrison (billed as "Introducing Susan Harrison"), ("Featuring") Martin Milner (billed as "Marty Milner"), Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols, Jeff Donnell, The Chico Hamilton Quintet, Emile Meyer, David White, Lawrence Dobkin, and Lurene Tuttle. Note that this movie was written by Ernest Lehman, and years before he had worked for Walter Winchell, and J.J. Hunsecker is clearly based on Winchell. He went to Burt Lancaster with this script on the provision that he be allowed to direct it, because he wanted to break into directing. In twists worthy of the movie itself, Lancaster agreed, but soon brought in Alexander Mackendrick to replace Lehman (some think he never intended to honor his promise from the start), and then he brought in Clifford Odets to rewrite the script! But while Lehman was treated horribly on this movie, his later career included writing North by Northwest, West Side Story, and The Sound of Music, so obviously, he bounced back wonderfully!
NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography.
If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know.
Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.

Condition: fine. There are light creases in the folds that aren't particularly distracting.
Learn More about condition grades

Complete Buyer Protection - No time limit on our guarantees & NO buyer beware
Hershenson Help Hotline - Direct line to Bruce (our owner!) for urgent problems
Also, please read the following two pages of Consignor Reviews - Page 1, Page 2, and two pages of Customer Reviews of our company - Page 1, Page 2, which shows you in our customers' own words exactly what makes our company and our auctions so very different from all others!


LAMP Approved - Founding Sponsor since 2001 - eMoviePoster
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. 
(For our UPS or FedEx address, click here)
phone: +1 417 256-9616     fax: +1 417 257-6948
E-mail: Contact Us
Hours of Operation:
Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT)