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Vintage Movie Posters Special Collections has 5,000 movie posters mainly from the 1940s and 1950s. Posters from the 100 best movies can now be viewed online. Displayed September - December, 2002 in the Lobby: World War II Movies (1941-1945) Air Force (1943) starring John Ridgely, John Garfield, Harry Carey, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, George Tobias, Robert Wood, Ray Montgomery, James Brown, Stanley Ridges, Willard Robertson, Moroni Olsen, Edward Brophy, Richard Lane Attack! Battle of New Britain (1944) starring Leo Genn, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Veiller, Walter Krueger, Douglas MacArthur Avengers [a.k.a. The Day Will Dawn] (1942) starring Hugh Williams, Griffiths Jones, Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson, Francis L. Sullivan, Roland Culver, Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis, Elizabeth Mann, Raymond Huntley, Patricia Medina, Roland Pertwee, Henry Oscar, David Horne, Henry Hewitt Back to Bataan (1945) starring John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli, Richard Loo, Lawrence Tierney, Philip Ahn, 'Ducky' Louie, Leonard Strong, Paul Fix, Abner Biberman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Alex Havier, John Miljan, Harold Fong Bataan (1943) starring Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnaz, Barry Nelson, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, Alex Havier, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis Bombardier (1943) starring Pat O'Brien, Randolph Scott, Anne Shirley, Eddie Albert, Walter Reed, Robert Ryan, Barton MacLane, Leonard Strong, Richard Martin, Russell Wade, James Newill, John Miljan, Charles Russell Buck Privates (1941) starring Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Jane Frazee, Nat Pendleton, Samuel S. Hinds, Harry Strang, Nella Walker, Leonard Elliott, Shemp Howard, M.J. Frankovich Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) starring Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins, Rosemary DeCamp, Alexander Knox, Elisabeth Fraser, Richard Derr, Erville Alderson, Barbara Everest, Rod Cameron, Louis Jean Heydt, George Macready The Conspirators (1944) starring Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Joseph Calleia, Carol Thurston, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli, Steven Geray, Kurt Katch, Michael Gastone Cornered (1945) starring Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky, Edgar Barrier, Steven Geray, Jack La Rue, Gregory Gaye Cross of Lorraine (1943) starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf, Joseph Calleia, Peter Lorre, Hume Cronyn, Billy Roy, Tonio Selwart, Jack Lambert, Wallace Ford, Donald Curtis, Jack Edwards Jr., Richard Ryen, Frederick Giermann Falcon's Brother (1942) starring Tom Conway, George Sanders, Jane Randolph, Don Barclay, Cliff Clark, Edward Gargan, James Newill, Charlotte Wynters, Eddie Dunn, Keye Luke, Amanda Varela, George J. Lewis, Gwili Andre, Mary Halsey, André Charlot Fighting Seabees (1944) starring John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinskey, J.M. Kerrigan, Grant Withers, Paul Fix, Ben Welden, William Forrest, Addison Richards, Jay Norris, Duncan Renaldo, Wally Wales Fighting Sullivans [a.k.a. The Sullivans] (1944) starring Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall, John Campbell, James Cardwell, John Alvin, George Offerman, Roy Roberts, Ward Bond Follow the Boys (1944) starring George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin, Charles Butterworth, Ramsay Ames, Elizabeth Patterson, Regis Toomey, George Macready, Theodore von Eltz, Janet Shaw, Jan Wiley, Frank Jenks, Molly Lamont, Mack Gray God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) starring Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Andrea King, John Ridgely, Craig Stevens, Warren Douglas, Mark Stevens, Charles Smith, Minor Watson, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn, Joel Allen, Murray Alper, Paul Brooke, Clark Burroughs, William Challee, Frances Chan, Sanders Clark, George Cleveland, Dan Dowling, James Flavin, William Forrest, Art Foster, Joel Friedkin, Paul Fung, Don McGuire, John Miles, Clarence Muse, Gigi Perreau, Stanley Ridges, Bernard Sell, Tom Steele, Frank Tang, Dale Van Sickel Iceland (1942) starring Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart, Osa Massen, Joan Merrill, Fritz Feld, Sammy Kaye, James Bush, Carol Curtis-Brown, Adeline De Walt Reynolds, James Flavin, Ilka Grüning, William Haade, Sterling Holloway, Ludwig Stössel, Eugene Turner Immortal Sergeant (1943) starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell, Allyn Joslyn, Reginald Gardiner, Melville Cooper, Bramwell Fletcher, Morton Lowry In Our Time (1944) starring Ida Lupino, Paul Henreid, Nancy Coleman, Mary Boland, Victor Francen, Alla Nazimova, Michael Chekhov In Which We Serve (1942) starring Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Ann Stephens, Daniel Massey, Joyce Carey, Dora Gregory, Kay Walsh, Derek Elphinstone, Michael Wilding, Philip Friend, Ballard Berkeley, Robert Sansom, Chimmo Branson Man Hunt (1941) starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Ludwig Stössel, Heather Thatcher, Frederick Worlock, Roger Imhof Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) starring Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Emory Parnell, Al Bridge, Julius Tannen, Victor Potel, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff Mister V [a.k.a. Pimpernel Smith] (1941) starring Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Mary Morris, Hugh McDermott, Raymond Huntley, Manning Whiley, Peter Gawthorne, Allan Jeayes, Dennis Arundell, Joan Kemp-Welch, Philip Friend, Laurence Kitchin, David Tomlinson, Basil Appleby, Percy Walsh The Moon Is Down (1943) starring Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon, Margaret Wycherly, Peter van Eyck, William Post Jr., Henry Rowland, E.J. Ballantine, Violette Wilson, Hans Schumm, Frederic Brunn, Ernst Deutsch Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) starring Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Warrick, Ted Donaldson, Bob Haymes, Richard Lane, Robert Armstrong, Richard Gaines My Pal, Wolf (1944) starring Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland, Charles Arnt, Claire Carleton, Leona Maricle, Bruce Edwards, Edward Fielding, Olga Fabian, Grey Shadow, Bert Moorhouse, Bryant Washburn The North Star (1943) starring Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan, Ann Harding, Jane Withers, Farley Granger, Erich von Stroheim, Dean Jagger, Eric Roberts, Carl Benton Reid, Ann Carter, Esther Dale, Ruth Nelson, Paul Guilfoyle Objective, Burma! (1945) starring Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson, John Alvin, Mark Stevens, Richard Erdman One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) starring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones, Pamela Brown, Joyce Redman, Googie Withers, Hay Petrie, Selma Van Dias, Arnold Marlé, Robert Helpmann, Peter Ustinov, Alec Clunes Pied Piper (1942) starring Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J. Carrol Naish, Lester Matthews, Jill Esmond, Ferike Boros, Peggy Ann Garner, Merrill Rodin, Maurice Tauzin, Fleurette Zama, William Edmunds, Marcel Dalio, Marcelle Corday Practically Yours (1944) starring Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Cecil Kellaway, Robert Benchley, Tom Powers, Jane Frazee, Rosemary DeCamp, Isabel Randolph, Mikhail Rasumny The Purple Heart (1944) starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, Farley Granger, Kevin O'Shea, Don 'Red' Barry, Trudy Marshall, Sam Levene, Charles Russell, John Craven, Tala Birell, Richard Loo, Peter Chong Report from the Aleutians (1943) starring John Huston, Walter Huston, Maj. Milton Ashkin, Lt. Lyle A. Bean, Col. Jack Chennault, Col. C.M. McCoracle, Lt. Hawley P. Nill, Col. William Prince, Lt. George I. Radell, Lt. Henry J. Strenkowski Rosie the Riveter (1944) starring Jane Frazee, Frank Albertson, Barbara Jo Allen, Frank Jenks, Lloyd Corrigan, Frank Fenton, Maude Eburne, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Louise Erickson, Ellen Lowe, Arthur Loft, Tom Kennedy Salerno Beachhead [a.k.a. A Walk in the Sun] (1945) starring Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley, Richard Benedict, Huntz Hall, James Cardwell, George Offerman, Steve Brodie, Matt Willis, Chris Drake San Diego I Love You (1944) starring Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Buster Keaton, Irene Ryan, Rudy Wissler, Peter Miles, Charles Bates, Don Davis, Florence Lake, Chester Clute, Sarah Selby, Fern Emmett Secret Command (1944) starring Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom Tully, Wallace Ford, Howard Freeman, Erik Rolf, Matt McHugh, Frank Sully, Frank Fenton, Charles D. Brown, Carol Nugent, Richard Lane The Silver Fleet (1943) starring Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell, Kathleen Byron, Willem Akkerman, Dorothy Gordon, Charles Victor, John Longden, Joss Ambler, Margaret Emden, George Schelderup, Neville Mapp, Ivor Barnard Spitfire [a.k.a. The First of the Few] (1942) starring Leslie Howard, David Niven, Rosamund John, Roland Culver, Anne Firth, David Horne, J.H. Roberts, Derrick De Marney, Rosalyn Boulter, Herbert Cameron, Toni Edgar-Bruce, Gordon McLeod, George Skillan, Erik Freund, F.R. Wendhausen Standing Room Only (1944) starring Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Edward Arnold, Hillary Brooke, Roland Young, Anne Revere, Clarence Kolb, Isabel Randolph, Porter Hall Star Spangled Rhythm (1942) starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone, Ray Milland, Victor Moore, Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard, Vera Zorina, Mary Martin, Dick Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) starring Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Carol Thurston, Carl Esmond, Stanley Ridges, Elliott Reid, Renny McEvoy, Paul Kelly, James Millican, Barbara Britton, Richard Loo, Victor Varconi, Lester Matthews Suicide Squadron [a.k.a. Dangerous Moonlight] (1941) starring Anton Walbrook, Sally Gray, Derrick De Marney, Cecil Parker, Percy Parsons, Kenneth Kent, J.H. Roberts, Guy Middleton, John Laurie, Frederick Valk, O.B. Clarence, James Pirrie, Marian Spencer, Leslie Gordon, Philip Friend Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) starring Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Charles Winninger, Anne Revere, Connie Marshall, Chill Wills, Robert Bailey, Bobby Driscoll, Jane Darwell Swing Shift Maisie (1943) starring Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers, Connie Gilchrist, John Qualen, Kay Medford, Harry Wiere, Herbert Wiere, Sylvester Wiere, Jacqueline White, Betty Jaynes, Fred Brady, Marta Linden, Celia Travers, Donald Curtis They Came to Blow Up America (1943) starring George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ward Bond, Dennis Hoey, Sig Ruman, Ludwig Stössel, Robert Barrat, Poldi Dur, Ralph Byrd, Elsa Janssen, Rex Williams, Charles McGraw, Sven Hugo Borg, Kurt Katch, Otto Reichow This Is the Army (1943) starring George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale, Charles Butterworth, Dolores Costello, Una Merkel, Stanley Ridges, Rosemary DeCamp, Ruth Donnelly, Dorothy Peterson, Frances Langford, Gertrude Niesen, Kate Smith, Ronald Reagan Tomorrow the World! (1944) starring Fredric March, Betty Field, Agnes Moorehead, Skip Homeier, Joan Carroll, Edit Angold, Rudy Wissler, Boots Brown, Marvin Davis, Patsy Anne Thompson, Mary Newton, Tom Fadden The True Glory (1945) starring Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov Uncensored (1942) starring Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Raymond Lovell, Peter Glenville, Frederick Culley, Irene Handl, Carl Jaffe, Felix Aylmer, Eliot Makeham, Walter Hudd, Stuart Lindsell, J.H. Roberts, John Slater, Peter Godfrey Underground (1941) starring Jeffrey Lynn, Philip Dorn, Kaaren Verne, Mona Maris, Peter Whitney, Martin Kosleck, Erwin Kalser, Ilka Grüning, Frank Reicher, Egon Brecher, Ludwig Stössel, Hans Schumm, Wolfgang Zilzer, Roland Varno, Henry Brandon Wake Island (1942) starring Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton, William Bendix, Mikhail Rasumny, Walter Abel, Damian O'Flynn, Bill Goodwin, Phillip Terry, Don Castle, Rod Cameron, Frank Albertson You're in the Army Now (1941) starring Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, Regis Toomey, Donald MacBride, Joe Sawyer, Clarence Kolb, Paul Harvey, George Meeker, Paul Stanton, William Haade, John Maxwell, Etta McDaniel, Kay Aldridge, Peggy Diggins The Library's movie posters also paper the walls of the newly refurbished Paramount Theater in Brooklyn Center, thanks, in part, to the efforts of President Steinberg. Only duplicate copies of Paramount Pictures movie titles were picked and then placed in secure frames. Very recently, the rest of the Paramount duplicates were also sent to be framed. There is also the exciting possibility of movie poster exhibits animating one of the Tilles Center's rooms. Movie buffs, please watch for coming attractions. Back to Online Posters Page

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