Film poster for A View to a Kill: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

White, large movie poster for the film A View to a Kill with an illustration of Roger Moore and Grace Jones. Both actors are on the right side of the poster with their backs to each other. Moore holds a gun in his PR hand raised toward the top of the poster. Jones is lighting a cigarette held within a cigarette holder. In the lower right quadrant is the title, billing block, and movie tag line. The text is in red and black fonts. NSS number 850004.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1985
• Commissioned by: United Artists Corporation, founded 1919
• Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., founded 1924
• Subject of: Grace Jones, Jamaican American, born 1948
• Subject of: Roger Moore, British, 1927 - 2017
• Type: posters
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 40 15/16 × 27 in. (104 × 68.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Hollywood (Film)
• Object number: 2014.35.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, A Gift from the Personal Collection of Bill Ivory Larson
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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