Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was MGM's biggest hit of 1958, made under the shadow of tragedy: Elizabeth Taylor's husband, the producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash during filming, and she would have been on board had she not stayed home with a cold. She returned to the set within weeks and gave a performance that earned her an Oscar nomination. Tennessee Williams had won the Pulitzer Prize for the play, but the censors forced the screenwriters to blur Brick's feelings for his dead friend Skipper, and Williams, so the story goes, told queues outside one cinema that the film would set the industry back fifty years. It still earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Paul Newman's first for Best Actor.

An original American One Sheet from the 1958 release, now linen-backed. With Taylor and Newman at the height of their powers, first-release paper for this film is prized well beyond the circle of dedicated film collectors.

• Year: 1958
• Nationality: United States
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original US One Sheet
• Size: 27 x 41 inches
• Product Code: P1215