We’re back to I Married a Monster from Outer Space today, not because the movie is particularly notable, but because its Italian poster is pretty nice. It was titled in Italy Ho sposato un mostro venuto dallo spazio, which translates literally.
The art is signed, as you see in the inset, and if we’re reading it correctly the artist was one M. Cupizzi or M. Cupuzzi or M. Cupozzi. Problem is, we got no hits on any of those names even using all our search tricks, which are lights years ahead of their time. So this will reside in the unattributed bin for the moment, and let it be yet another reminder to you artists out there to not get too baroque with your signatures.
In this case, since there’s clearly a dot over the final “i” in the artist’s name, you’d think the undotted character in the middle of his name isn’t an “i”, but it looks like one. This lack of precision means that letter could really be any vowel written in a stylized way. And that doesn’t even bring into the proceedings the fact that the first initial doesn’t have to be an “m”. With fame your signature can look like anything, but with relative obscurity Mr. or Ms. Cupizzi/Cupozzi/et al has built an obstacle to proper credit.
But moving on, as a bonus, below we have another Italian poster, this one a photo-illustration, but also pretty nice as those go, and superior to the above poster in one respect—it doesn’t need to be credited. So we’re done, except to say that there’s no Italian release date for Ho sposato un mostro venuto dallo spazio, but it probably opened there sometime in late 1959. And in case you missed them, you can see the U.S. promo and read about the film here, and you can see the sweet Australian daybill here.
