Gilbert and Sullivan Online Exhibit: Gilbert and Sullivan in Films

[Poster]. The Mikado. Designed for the 1939 Universal Pictures film.

Poster

[Lobby card]. One of eight cards designed for the 1952 film The Great Gilbert and Sullivan (United Artists).

Lobby card

[Advertisement]. Promotion in Variety of the 1999 film Topsy-Turvy for Academy Award nomination.

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[Lobby card]. Designed for the 1937 film The Girl Said No (Grand National Films).

The film includes sequences from seven Gilbert and Sullivan operas

lobby card

[Lobby card]. Designed for Romance de un Pirata (Mexican release of the 1982 Twentieth Century Fox film The Pirate Movie).

The film was loosely based on The Pirates of Penzance.

lobby card

[Display card]. One of eight cards designed for the 1962 film The Cool Mikado (United Artists)

Display card

[Lobby card]. One of four cards designed for the 1950 film The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan (Lippert Pictures).

This short British film either had limited distribution or was never released.

lobby card

[Lobby card]. One of eight cards designed for the 1983 film The Pirates of Penzance (Universal Pictures).

lobby card

[Display cards]. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan (British Lion, 1952); The Mikado (Warner Brothers, 1967); The Pirates of Penzance (Universal Studios, 1983).

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The Operas in the Popular Press



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