As part of the Academy’s centennial tribute to screen legend Barbara Stanwyck, this new exhibition in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery showcases more than 50 original film posters spanning the career of the four-time Oscar®-nominated actress.

On loan from producer and Academy member Mike Kaplan, the exhibition includes extremely rare copies of mass-produced American one-sheets as well as numerous international posters, many in large formats. 

The American collection contains the only known surviving three-sheets for The Locked Door (1929), Stanwyck’s first talking picture, and Annie Oakley (1935), her first Western.  Also included are the one-sheet posters for So Big (1932) and Baby Face (1933), and a one-of-a-kind, handpainted wooden panel for Internes Can’t Take Money (1937).

Stanwyck’s popularity abroad is evident in representative posters from Europe and South America.  From Argentina is a double-paneled poster for A Message to Garcia (1936) as well as one-sheets for Double Indemnity (1944) and My Reputation (1946).  Also on display are Swedish posters for Forbidden (1932), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) and Golden Boy (1939); French one-panels for Internes Can’t Take Money (1937), The Lady Eve (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944); Belgian posters for Flesh and Fantasy (1943), My Reputation (1946), The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) and Forty Guns (1957); a Spanish poster for Cattle Queen of Montana (1954); and a rare Italian “personality poster.”

The Academy's Grand Lobby Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends from noon to 6 p.m. Admission is free. Please note the Academy will be closed May 26-28 in observance of Memorial Day and on Saturday, June 9 for the 34th Annual Student Academy Awards Ceremony.