NAUGHTY NEW ORLEANS is today's post from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum. https://www.movieposterarchives.org/nextgen-share/d339a1cafe873db3c88ba67be2479854/65/full?uri=/louisiana-movie-poster-museum/ ... See more

In 1955, local production company Rebel Productions, Inc. released their adult film Naughty New Orleans. According to the press materials, the film is a riot of revelry, romance and roaring laughter seen mid historical hot spots in the City That Care Forgot - NEW ORLEANS. The working ti... ... See more

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Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is the Coen Brothers film Miller's Crossing.

MILLER’S CROSSING - 1990

In 1990, the Coen Brothers chose New Orleans as the location to film Miller's Crossing, an American gangster film. Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman. This volatile situation eventually led to citywide gang war.

Miller's Crossing starred Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito, John Turturro and Louisiana native John “Spud” McConnell.

The Coens and line producer Graham Place visited three different cities before settling on New Orleans, where economic factors and a preservation movement dating from the thirties had left many buildings from the twenties intact. Although the city in which the action takes place is not identified, it was filmed on location in and around New Orleans. According to various news reports, Ethan Coen commented in an interview:

"There are whole neighborhoods here of nothing but 1929 architecture. New Orleans is sort of a depressed city; it hasn’t been gentrified. There’s a lot of architecture that hasn’t been touched, store-front windows that haven’t been replaced in the last sixty years."

Scenes for the film were shot at several locations including: the International House (Leo’s club); the Louise S. McGehee School in the Garden District (Caspar’s house); Gallier Hall (Caspar’s Great Room and Mayor’s Office); French Quarter; Magazine Street shops; Old Metairie; and a tree farm ninety minutes from New Orleans in St. Tammany (the woods). All sets were housed in a garage on Annunciation Street.

Miller's Crossing was a box-office failure at the time, making slightly more than $5 million, out of its $10–$14 million budget. However, it has made a great deal of revenue in video and DVD sales. In 2005, Time Magazine chose Miller's Crossing as one of the 100 greatest films made since the inception of the periodical.

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In 1990, the Coen Brothers chose New Orleans as the location to film Miller's Crossing, an American gangster film. Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman. This volatile situation eventually led to citywide gang war. ... See more

Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is Mardi Gras starring Pat Boone.

MARDI GRAS - 1958

Mardi Gras in November? This could only be possible in the realm of motion pictures.

On November 14 1958, the city of New Orleans sponsored a brief “mini Mardi Gras celebration” in honor of the world premiere of the 1958 carnival-themed movie Mardi Gras. Many of the scenes from the motion picture, which takes place in New Orleans and at the Virginia Military Institute, were filmed in New Orleans during the 1958 carnival season.

Most of the stars of the picture, along with other dignitaries and officials, attended the event. Some watched the parade which featured floats from the 1959 Krewe of Carrollton Parade. Others road in the parade, throwing typical Mardi Gras favors. The parade also included motorcycle escorts and flambeaux carriers. After the festivities, the film was shown at the Saenger Theater.

Based on a story by Curtis Harrington with a screenplay by Winston Miller and Hal Kanter, Mardi Gras is the tale of a group of Virginia Military Institute cadets who come to New Orleans to find romance during Mardi Gras.

The film stars Pat Boone, Gary Crosby, Tommy Sands and Richard Sargent as the cadets and Sheree North and Barrie Chase as their love interests. The VMI band which marched in an actual Mardi Gras parade earlier in the year was also featured in the film.

Director Jerry Wald sent down Joe Parker from Hollywood to direct three camera crews taking shots of the Rex parade on Mardi Gras 1958. They also shot other parades during the Carnival season as well as scenes at the St. Louis cathedral, Jackson Square, Bourbon and Royal Streets and other French Quarter locales.

According to local news reports, "Mardi Gras exudes a happiness that is decidedly a departure from the type of films usually dreamed up for New Orleans, and the hundreds of thousands who lined Canal Street for last year's Rex parade, both natives and foreigners, are going to have fun trying to find themselves in the massive crowd shots."

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Mardi Gras in November? This could only be possible in the realm of motion pictures. On November 14 1958, the city of New Orleans sponsored a brief “mini Mardi Gras celebration” in honor of the world premiere of the 1958 carnival-themed movie Mardi Gras. Many of the scenes from the ... ... See more

Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is a 3-D documentary from 1953 called LOUISIANA TERRITORY.

LOUISIANA TERRITORY - 1953

In 1953, RKO-Pathe, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, released their first 3D full length documentary titled Louisiana Territory.

The film opens with a short narrative scene showing Robert Livingston, U.S. Ambassador to France, negotiating with Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles Tallyrand for the purchase of the Louisiana territory in 1803. Livingston soon learns Bonaparte is insisting that the United States purchase all of the Louisiana Territory, not just New Orleans and west Florida, as originally requested. When Talleyrand declares that Napoleon, who needs money to finance his war against England, is demanding an immediate answer, Livingston protests that he does not have the authority to make such a decision. Talleyrand continues to press Livingston, who finally agrees to buy the entire Louisiana Territory for fifteen million dollars, on behalf of his country and President Thomas Jefferson.

What follows is Livingston, portrayed by Val Winter, revisiting the territory in 1953. He comments on the growth and vitality of such cities as Minneapolis, DesMoines, Kansas City, St. Louis, Little Rock and New Orleans. Although most of the sequences were shot without sound, a few scenes include dialogue.

The greater portion of the film is spent exploring and filming New Orleans, its huge port, its picturesque night life, the French Quarter, and finally the Mardi Gras. Interwoven in the New Orleans story is a light-weight modern-day romance. The highlight of the film is Mardi Gras, the behind-the-scenes preparation and the climax on the day of celebration.

Others in the cast include Leo Zinser, Julian Meister, Phyllis Massicot and Marlene Behrens. Jay Bonafield and Douglas Travers produced, and Harry W. Smith directed from a screenplay by Jerome Brondfield. John A. Norling was technical director.

The following written statement is included in the credits: "All museum scenes in this film were made at the Cabildo of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans."

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In 1953, RKO-Pathe, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, released their first 3D full length documentary titled Louisiana Territory. The film opens with a short narrative scene showing Robert Livingston, U.S. Ambassador to France, negotiating with Napoleon.... ... See more

2021 is a year of firsts for Movie Poster Archives. Our first auction, our first virtual exhibit, and now our first newsletter. We want to make it worth your time, so we've filled it with tidbits, stories, and inside information about movie posters, collecting, donor profiles, and our programs. https://www.movieposterarchives.org/2021/03/30/april-2021-newsletter/ ... See more

Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is LOUISIANA (1947) starring Gov. Jimmie Davis.

Only in Louisiana will you find a singing governor who is also a popular movie star. In 1947, Monogram Pictures released the film Louisiana, based on the life of singer/musician/politician Jimmie Davis, who served as Louisiana’s governor for two terms: 1944-1948 and 1960-64.

The following written statement appeared at the end of the film:

In presenting the life of Governor Davis, great care has been taken to preserve authenticity with respect to characters and events dealing with his early life. Insofar as possible, many scenes were photographed in their natural settings and all of the exterior scenes were photographed in the State of Louisiana. Except for members of the family of Governor Davis, Charlie Mitchell, John McCormack, Judge David B. Samuels, Dr. M. E. Dodd, all persons portrayed in Louisiana and all references to political parties and events concerning them are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or political parties and events is unintentional and co-incidental.

As depicted in the film, Jimmie Davis was born in rural Louisiana in 1900, the son of a poor sharecropper and one of eleven children. He was educated at Louisiana College and Louisiana State University and became a professor at Dodd College, performing as a country singer on the side.

In the mid-1930s, he signed a recording deal with Decca Records and became a popular radio entertainer in Shreveport, LA. In the early 1940s, Davis appeared in several western movies, including Universal's 1942 film Strictly in the Groove and Columbia's 1943 picture Frontier Fury, in which he performed with his band, the Singing Buckaroos.

After serving as Shreveport's police commissioner and Louisiana's controller, Davis served as governor from 1944-1948. He returned to entertaining in the late 1940s, and became a leading gospel singer in the 1950s. In 1960, he was re-elected to a second four-year term as governor of Louisiana.

At the time, Davis was the only seated governor ever to star in a motion picture.

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Only in Louisiana will you find a singing governor who is also a popular movie star. In 1947, Monogram Pictures released the film Louisiana, based on the life of singer/musician/politician Jimmie Davis, who served as Louisiana’s governor for two terms: 1944-1948 and 1960-64. The following written ... ... See more

Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is the 1973 German poster for Live and Let Die, Roger Moore's first appearance as James Bond.

LIVE AND LET DIE - 1973

The first appearance of Roger Moore as James Bond was in the 1973 film Live and Let Die. Sean Connery, who starred as Bond in earlier films, refused to continue in the role, despite being offered a financial deal similar to the one he received in Diamonds Are Forever which purportedly would have earned Connery six million dollars. Moore was announced as the lead in August of 1972, as noted in contemporary sources. According to Variety Magazine, Moore was the producers’ original choice to play Bond when the series began in 1963, but he was at that point committed to the British television series The Saint , in which he starred from 1962 to 1969.

In addition to Moore, the cast included newcomer Jane Seymour, Yaphat Kotto, Clifton James and David Hedison. It was produced by Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and directed by Guy Hamilton.

This was the eighth in the successful series of James Bond films based on the novels by Ian Fleming, although, as noted in reviews, the screenplay by Tom Mankiewicz did not bear a strong resemblance to the Fleming story. In this film, Moore’s Bond battled against the malevolent and mysterious black ruler, Dr. Kananga, who plans to dominate the western world with an onslaught of voodoo and hard drug addictions.

Live and Let Die was filmed in the New Orleans area, including in and around the French Quarter (including the Jazz parade sequence); Louis Armstrong Airport; Lakefront Airport (Bleeker Flying School); Highway 11 at the Crawdad Bridge just outside Phoenix (where the infamous boat jump scene was filmed); Miller’s Bridge (the police riverblock); a boatyard in Slidell; the Southern Yacht Club; Baldwin Estate (where the boat scoots on to the lawn); and Treadway Estate in Slidell (where the wedding was interrupted).

Continuing the tradition of elaborate chase scenes in Bond films, Live and Let Die features a long, complex speedboat chase including several boat jumps, one of which earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for its 110-foot distance.

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The first appearance of Roger Moore as James Bond was in the 1973 film Live and Let Die. Sean Connery, who starred as Bond in earlier films, refused to continue in the role, despite being offered a financial deal similar to the one he received in Diamonds Are Forever which purportedly would have ear... ... See more

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Today's poster from the Louisiana Movie Poster Virtual Museum is the Spanish one-sheet for Let's Do It Again, the sequel to Uptown Saturday Night.

LET’S DO IT AGAIN - 1975

The 1970’s saw an increase in Blaxploitation and Black cast films, with many of them crossing racial lines and becoming critical and financial successes across all audiences. New Orleans served as the backdrop for one of those Black cast favorites.

The same two dudes from Uptown Saturday Night ... but this time they're back with Kid Dyn-o-mite!

That was the advertising tagline coined for the 1975 action crime comedy Let’s Do It Again. The film was the second successful pairing of Academy Award winning actor Sidney Poitier and comedy legend Bill Cosby and an excellent supporting Black cast. Although many considered it a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night, the characters in the two films are different.

Jimmy Walker, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Ossie Davis and Denise Nicholas also starred in the film. At the time, Walker was one of the hottest actors on television, starring as J. J., Kid Dyn-o-mite, on the popular series Good Times.

John Amos also starred on that show. Billy Eckstine, who plays “Zack,” was a well-known swing music singer and band leader from the 1930s until his death in 1993. In 1999, he was posthumously honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame award for his contributions to the recording industry. Let’s Do It Again was directed by Sidney Poitier.

The film follows the efforts of milkman Clyde Williams (Poitier) and forklift operator Billy Foster (Cosby) who are turned down by the city of Atlanta, Georgia for their request to delay a demolition of the lodge building of the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. To raise building funds to help save their lodge, they go to New Orleans, where they turn a puny prize fighter (Walker) into a superman, and place large bets with rival hoodlums. When the fighter, under hypnosis, wins the middleweight championship, the hoods realize they've been ripped off and the chase is on.

Let’s do it Again began principal photography in New Orleans, LA, on May 3,1975. New Orleans filming locations included the French Quarter and the river steamboat, Cotton Blossom.

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The 1970’s saw an increase in Blaxploitation and Black cast films, with many of them crossing racial lines and becoming critical and financial successes across all audiences. New Orleans served as the backdrop for one of those Black cast favorites. The same two dudes from Uptown Satur... ... See more