28-04-2025
Robert McGinnis obituary: illustrator of Sixties film posters
Bob McGinnis's first film poster was for Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), depicting a black-clad Audrey Hepburn with a long cigarette holder in her mouth, a cat perched on her waif-like shoulders and the film's title in a cute pink typeface at her feet. To the side was a small scene of a couple embracing.
More posters followed, including a bikini-clad Jane Fonda evading a fiery rocket for Barbarella (1968), six scantily clad women carrying Elvis Presley for Live a Little, Love a Little (also 1968) and a pastiche of guns, semi-naked women and a gold Rolls-Royce for the blaxploitation comedy Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970). Raquel Welch, whom he painted for The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968), once sighed: 'I wish I looked half
