Month: March 2019

  • Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 2 of 5)

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail   Three more German lobby cards.   The shot of Johnny at the mic was previously a British lobby card, and had been published in Movie 81 No. 2 in February 1981. It would appear to have been taken at the same time as the shot that appeared in the center of the gatefold…

  • Times Square lobby cards, Germany, 1982 (post 1 of 5)

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailGermany may have gotten Times Square last, but they got a set of 15 lobby cards to promote it with. At least, 15 that I’ve found, over several years, in two batches of 14 that each had one different card in them. While 15 sounds like a nice round number, I wouldn’t be surprised if…

  • Times Square movie poster, Germany, 1982

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Times Square opened in West Germany on May 21, 1982. The poster reproduced the painting by Cummins that had graced the other European posters, although with a different pair of photos than the British, Spanish, and Yugoslavian posters, and the addition of a paragraph of ad copy that seems to take its cue from…