One, Two, Three (1961)

One, Two, Three (1961), the US one-sheet for Billy Wilder's Cold War farce with James Cagney. A brush-drawn woman with a black bob looks down on three white balloons that spell out the title, held by a gloved black hand reaching in from the side. The balloons sit right where a figure's chest would be, a sly visual joke that fits Wilder's fast, cheeky comedy. Against Bass's somber Preminger work, this orange sheet shows how lightly he could play it, down to the hand-lettered cast list.