BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS Original 1-Sheet DISNEY Poster Angela Lansbury DISNEY

Description

This is an ORIGINAL 1-Sheet Movie Poster from WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS.  It measures 27" x 41."  Great animted artwork on the poster.  It has wears on all four corners, and a piece of border ripped on the side and a tear on the bottom.  Please see all images.   It would look great framed.  It has a distressed look to it.  It was used  for the release in theatres in 1971  the classic Walt Disney
1971 Animation and Live Action motion picture,
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Director:
Robert Stevenson
Writers:
Ralph Wright
(animation story),
Ted Berman
(animation story),
3 more credits
»
Stars:
Angela Lansbury
,
David Tomlinson
,
Roddy McDowall
You'll beWITCHED! You'll beDAZZLED! You'll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!
An apprentice witch, 3 kids and a cynical conman search for the missing component to a magic spell useful to the defence of Britain. During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.
The entire cast included:
Angela Lansbury
...
Miss Price
David Tomlinson
...
Emelius
Roddy McDowall
...
Mr. Jelk
Sam Jaffe
...
Bookman
John Ericson
...
Col. Heller
Bruce Forsyth
...
Swinburne
Cindy O'Callaghan
...
Carrie
Roy Snart
...
Paul
Ian Weighill
...
Charlie
Tessie O'Shea
...
Mrs. Hobday
Arthur Gould-Porter
...
Capt. Greer (as Arthur E. Gould-Porter)
Ben Wrigley
...
Portobello Rd. Workman
Reginald Owen
...
Gen. Teagler
Cyril Delevanti
...
Elderly Farmer
Rick Traeger
...
German Sergeant
Nice Disneyana item, regardless of the edgewear.  Colors are bright!  Great for fans of this classic film!  ALL ORIGINAL!
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MORE INFO ON ANGELA LANSBURY:
B
ritish character actress, long in the United States. The daughter of an actress and the granddaughter of a high-ranking politician, Lansbury studied acting from her youth, departing for the United States as the Second World War began. She was contracted by MGM while still a teenager and nominated for an Academy for her first film, (1944). Two pictures later, she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress, this time for (1945). Now established as a supporting player of quality, she began a long career, often as "the other woman" in major productions and as the leading lady in lesser films. Her features, while not at all old-appearing, gave her an air of maturity that allowed her to pass as much older than she actually was, and she began playing mother roles, often to players of her own age, while yet in her thirties. She concentrated more and more on stage work, achieving notable success in a number of plays and musicals, winning four Tony s in sixteen years. Although active in television since the early 1950s, she obtained her greatest fame in the 1980s by starring in the light mystery program (1984). As Jessica Fletcher, she became known and loved by millions for well over a decade. She also became known for the odd fact of almost annual Emmy nominations for the role without ever winning for it. An institution in American theatre and television, she is also an inspiration for the graciousness of her personality, which is often exploited and always admired.
MORE INFO ON WALT DISNEY:
At age 16, during World War I, he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross. He soon returned home, where he won a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute. There, he met a fellow animator,
Ub Iwerks
. The two soon set up their own company. In the early 20s, they made a series of animated
shorts
for the Newman theater chain, entitled "Newman's Laugh-O-Grams". Their company soon went bankrupt, however. The two then went to Hollywood in 1923. They started work on a new series, about a live-action little girl who journeys to a world of animated characters. Entitled the "Alice Comedies", they were distributed by
M.J. Winkler
(Margaret). Walt was backed up financially only by Winkler and his brother
Roy Edward
Disney
, who would remain his business partner for the rest of his life. Hundreds of "Alice Comedies" were produced between 1923 and 1927, before they lost popularity. Walt then started work on a series around a new animated character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This series was successful, but in 1928, Walt discovered that
M.J. Winkler
and her husband,
Charles Mintz
, had stolen the rights to the character away from him. They had also stolen all his animators, except for
Ub Iwerks
. While taking the train home, Walt started doddling on a piece of paper. The result of these doddles was a mouse named Mickey. With only Walt and Ub to animate, and Walt's wife
Lillian
Disney
(Lilly) and Roy's wife
Edna
Disney
to ink in the animation cells, three Mickey Mouse cartoons were quickly produced. The first two didn't sell, so Walt added synchronized sound to the last one,
Steamboat Willie
(1928), and it was immediately picked up. It became the first cartoon to use synchronize sound. With Walt as the voice of Mickey, it premiered to great success. Many more cartoons followed. Walt was now in the big time, but he didn't stop creating new ideas. In 1929, he created the 'Silly Symphonies', a cartoon series that didn't have a continuous character. They were another success. One of them,
Flowers and Trees
(1932), was the first cartoon to be produced in color and the first cartoon to win an Oscar; another,
Three Little Pigs
(1933), was so popular it was often billed above the feature films it accompanied. The Silly Symphonies stopped coming out in 1939, but Mickey and friends, (including Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, and plenty more), were still going strong and still very popular. In 1934, Walt started work on another new idea: a cartoon that ran the length of a feature film. Everyone in Hollywood was calling it "Disney's Folly", but
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(1937) was anything but, winning critical raves, the adoration of the public, and one big and seven little special Oscars for Walt. Now Walt listed animated features among his ever-growing list of accomplishments. While continuing to produce cartoon shorts, he also started producing more of the animated features.
Pinocchio
(1940),
Dumbo
(1941), and
Bambi
(1942) were all successes; not even a flop like
Fantasia
(1940) and a studio animators' strike in 1941 could stop
Disney
now. In the mid- 40s, he began producing "packaged features", essentially a group of
shorts
put together to run feature length, but by 1950 he was back with animated features that stuck to one story, with
Cinderella
(1950),
Alice in Wonderland
(1951), and
Peter Pan
(1953). In 1950, he also started producing live-action films, with
Treasure Island
(1950). These began taking on greater importance throughout the 50s and 60s, but Walt continued to produce animated features, including
Lady and the Tramp
(1955),
Sleeping Beauty
(1959), and
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
(1961). In 1955, he even opened a theme park in southern California: Disneyland. It was a place where children and their parents could take rides, just explore, and meet the familiar animated characters, all in a clean, safe environment. It was another great success.
Walt also became one of the first producers of films to venture into television, with his series
"Disneyland"
(1954) which he began in 1954 to promote his theme park. He also produced
"The Mickey Mouse Club"
(1955) and
"Zorro"
(1957). To top it all off, Walt came out with the lavish musical fantasy
Mary Poppins
(1964), which mixed live-action with animation. It is considered by many to be his magnum opus. Even after that, Walt continued to forge onward, with plans to build a new theme park and an experimental prototype city in Florida. He never did finish those plans, however; in 1966, he contracted lung cancer. He died in December at age 65. But not even his death, it seemed, could stop him. Roy carried on plans to build the Florida theme park, and it premiered in 1971 under the name Walt
Disney
World. What's more, his company continues to flourish, still producing animated and live-action films and overseeing the still- growing empire started by one man: Walt Disney, who will never be forgotten.
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