La Dolce Vita – French Grande

La Dolce Vita (sometimes referred to as “Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita”; literally translates to “The Sweet Life”), the classic 1960 (released in the U.S. in 1961) Federico Fellini (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) French/Italian romantic melodrama (“Uncut uncensored now for all to see… the nights, the drunken revels, the sin and the sinners, the perverted decadence of the jet set rich who live what they call ‘the sweet life'”; “The most talked about – the most shocked about film of our years”; about a successful Italian movie critic who is dissatisfied with the emptiness of his life, even though he is surrounded by rich and famous people and has a beautiful girlfriend, and he yearns to understand why) starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noel, Lex Barker, Jacques Sernas, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Walter Santesso, Nadia Gray, and Franca Pasut. Note that Astor Pictures, which had been known for mostly re-releasing classic U.S. movies in the 1940s and 1950s, acquired the rights for the first American release of this classic Italian movie, which they released on April 19, 1961.
Artist: Yves Thos

Note that this is a “country of origin” poster for this partially French movie! Also note that there is a tiny “5/60 Depot legal 60/2” with “26102” by that at the bottom of the poster. This means that this poster is from the first release in 1960, and that this is the second time the poster was printed.

Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well!