My Dad collected movie posters from the theater. Here's one.

[usonian]

He also painted portraits of movie stars.

I don't have the dates, but they are really old.

A Charles Laughton in there? I'll post when I find it.

FOUND IT.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. lovely movie poseter art.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Those are wonderful! TY for sharing them, Usonian.

[chouchou]

3. Gary Cooper earing lipstick. Not trashing that...

...lots of South Korean and Japanese actors wear lipstick nowadays. (men)

[BaronChocula]

10. He looks like the Joker

I figured it was old-school photoshop.

[chouchou]

16. My Husband watches Asian dramas on Netflix (Yeah, I know)

Anyway, some of the Manly Men look ...ah...Strange.. (Not that there's anything wrong with it"

[Devilsun]

4. Hide the wire hangers

[mountain grammy]

5. The colors are amazing

Really nice!

[usonian]

7. The posters were well-preserved.

I just snapped these two with an iPhoneSE3 (no need to open the camera bags) and did my usual very minimal processing with the mac Preview app.

For these old prints, I took the color up a little (I hate garish color) just enough to convey what the artist intended.

I would take out the dust and dirt spots with the free GIMP program.

[Figarosmom]

6. Likely worth a lot

They look in good condition. When they have this type of art on Roadshow they usually turn out to be worth a couple hundred.

Should frame them and make a wall of them.

[usonian]

8. You know how it goes, precious to buy, worthless to sell, but definitely worth hanging on the wall. Great entertainment

Next to Dad's paintings. I'll get some from my brother shortly.

And my photos, as well.

My daughter and son-in-law get great diving photos.

So, I definitely look forward to a home gallery.

When I move. But that's another story.

[aggiesal]

9. I'm looking at the ''Today We Live'' poster you supplied ...

and I'm thinking "That's not Gary Cooper".
So I went to the imdb.com for the movie and found this image, where it says this is Robert Young.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024675/mediaviewer/rm120551680/

[usonian]

14. How could the studio get it wrong??

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I see Young Robert (sic) in the black and white.

I plead ignorance on these. The black and white looks like a great photo, Others are very sharp,

I have to wonder if they are black and white photos that have been colorized, since they have the "airbrush" look to them.'

And to print, they have to be halftoned anyhow.

My Dad's movie star paintings are not so subtle. They use bold color by comparison.

Now, a mystery.

MORE. Young and Cooper are stars in it.
https://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/today-we-live-i24675/EAr1go
If you hover over the stills, the one I posted says Robert Young





From this page
https://www.moviestillsdb.com/movies/today-we-live-i24675/M2Pmgs

Many pix here.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024675/

War is hell.

[BaronChocula]

11. Antiques Roadshow

If they ever roll through your town stop by.

[usonian]

12. They'll buy the whole town. It's antique. (for California anyway)

I grew up in New England. Now there's the place.

In our optical engineering department, there was one guy who swore he made more selling blanket chests and so on, on weekends, than as an optical engineer during the work week.

He also familiarized us with the "last one holding the bag" theory of antiques.

Thanks for the positive thought, though.

[BaronChocula]

15. Grew up down the road from the Shelburne Musem

In Vermont. They actually hosted an AR episode.
I think it’s strange how antiques lose value based on taste. You’d think anything old just appreciates in value automatically. And then, kids these days aren’t as eager to inherit junk from previous generations. At least what I’ve seen from nieces and nephews. If that’s really the case the demand for antiques may plateau. But who knows. Just spitballing’.

[calimary]

13. These are classics!