LOVES OF JOANNA GODDEN 1947 Googie Withers JOHN MINTON TRADE ADVERT

Original British 11 inch x 17 inch Double-Sided Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1947 Charles Frend Ealing Studios Drama THE LOVES OF JOANNA GODDEN, based on the novel by Sheila Kaye-Smith with a screenplay by H.E. Bates and starring Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jean Kent, Derek Bond, Chips Rafferty, Edward Rigby and Henry Mollison.

An Edwardian pastoral drama with much location footage shot on Romney Marsh. Googie Withers is an ardent young woman, determined to be a farmer in her own right, but eventually succumbing to the love of a good neighbour and his masculine skills. This pre-Women’s Lib story was by a notable woman novelist.

Ad art by John Minton (1948 - 1995). His signature is visible in the bottom left corner of the artwork
”Minton was born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire on 25th December 1917. He was educated at Northcliff House, Sussex and at Reading School and then studied art at St John's Wood School of Art from 1935 to 1938. From 1943 to 1946 Minton taught illustration at the Camberwell College of Arts, and from 1946 to 1948 he was in charge of drawing and illustration at the Central School of Art. Minton's output was considerable. Between 1945 and 1956 he had seven solo exhibitions at the Lefevre gallery. He designed textiles and wallpapers; he produced posters for London Transport and Ealing Studios; and he was highly regarded as a portrait painter. He painted scenes of Britain, from rural beauty to urban decay, and travelled overseas, producing scenes of the West Indies, Spain and Morocco.
Although Minton was respected both by the conservative Royal Academy and the modernist London Group, he was out of sympathy with the abstract painting that began to prevail during the 1950s, and he felt increasingly out of touch with current fashion. He suffered extreme mood swings and became dependent on alcohol. He took his own life in 1957 at his London home, taking an overdose of sleeping tablets.”

The trade advert is in very good condition with one vertical fold and 2 staple holes along it.