Stromboli (1950)

Stromboli began with a fan letter. Ingrid Bergman, having seen Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City, wrote offering her services as a Swedish actress whose Italian ran only to "ti amo", and within a year the two were making a film together on a volcanic island, and falling in love. When news broke that she was carrying his child, a US senator denounced her on the floor of the Senate as "a powerful influence for evil", and Hollywood turned its back on her for most of the decade. Meanwhile Rossellini's former lover Anna Magnani was shooting a rival film, Vulcano, on a neighbouring island, and the press called it the war of the volcanoes. Bergman returned in triumph with Anastasia in 1956, and won her second Academy Award.

This is the French One Panel, at 47 x 63 inches the grand format of French cinema advertising, and a fitting size for a film that made headlines around the world. French posters of this scale were pasted onto walls and kiosks, and few from 1950 have come down to us. It has been linen-backed.

• Year: 1950
• Nationality: French
• Condition: Linen-backed
• Type: Original French One Panel
• Size: 47 x 63 inches
• Product Code: P2634