Poster, Movie - "A Face in the Crowd"
Object number2013.048.01
Date1957
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionA movie poster for "A Face in the Crowd", a film written by Budd Schulberg and based on his short story entitled "Your Arkansas Traveler". A movie poster for "A Face in the Crowd", a film written by Budd Schulberg and based on his short story entitled "Your Arkansas Traveler". The story centers on a drifter named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes, who is discovered by the producer of a small-market radio program in rural northeast Arkansas. Rhodes gains celebrity as a singer and becomes drunk with power. The movie takes place in a fictional Arkansas town called Pickett and was filmed in Piggott (Clay County), Arkansas and Paragould (Greene County), Arkansas.
Status
Not on view
