THE BLUE LAGOON (1980) Brooke Shields & and similar items

Vintage original 27x41 in. US one-sheet poster from the smash 1980's adventure/drama romance, THE BLUE LAGOON, released in 1980 by Columbia Pictures and directed by Randal Kleiser. Based upon the novel by Henry De Vere Stacpoole, in the Victorian era, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene. The cast includes Christopher Atkins, Brooke Shields, Leo McKern, William Daniels, and Elva Josephson. Unrestored and folded as originally issued, this vintage original one-sheet poster is in very fine condition with only light signs of wear on the edge of the bottom border near the right corner. There are no pinholes, tears, stains, or other flaws. Actress and model Brooke Shields was only fourteen years of age when the movie was made. It was the director's original concept to have the two grown characters play the entire film in the nude, which scared off many actors (including Jennifer Jason Leigh, who was the first choice for the female lead). After Leigh passed on the project, the producers offered Diane Lane and Willie Aames the film after screen-testing them together in Mexico, where Lane was shooting a Western...but the pair discussed the nudity together after the crew left and called a few days later to say they wouldn't do the film, either. With shooting set to begin in a matter of days, the desperate director agreed to let Shields make the film predominantly clothed, with a body double employed for the nude scenes. With that settled, the casting director returned to the thousands of audition tapes they had made over the course of a year, and decided Christopher Atkins would be all right if he permed his hair to look more savage.