Drat!
Artist
Al Hirschfeld
United States, 1903 - 2003
Publisher
Darien House, Inc., New York City
Date1968
Dimensions44 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (113 x 74.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LineGift of Diane Lippert
Object numberPH.811
DescriptionThis poster, apparently intended for display in the windows of booksellers, advertises Drat!: Being the Encapsulated View of Life by W. C. Fields in His Own Words, the first book by Richard J. Anobile in which he combined movie stills with dialogue. It was the beginning of a publishing career in which he used the technique to describe “verbal and visual gems” in the films of W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers as well as to reconstruct in print such classic films as Casablanca and Pyscho. It was also the start of a long collaboration with Al Hirschfeld, who designed both the poster and the cover art for the book, featuring the same caricature of Fields in his notoriously boozy and curmudgeonly guise.On View
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