eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6h762 RAY MILLAND/MARSHA HUNT 8x10 key book still 1936 Paramount co-stars with tennis rackets! Date Sold 5/26/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Key Book Still (Learn More) Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones in Wales in 1905. He spent 3 years as a guardsman with the Royal Household Cavalry in London, and then started appearing in English movies in 1928. He moved to Hollywood the following year and he had little success for several years, but after around five years, he found his niche playing the younger brother or the rival to the male lead. In the middle 1930s he started getting leads in romantic comedies or dramas to the type of leading ladies who did not want too strong of a male co-star! It seemed like his career would never get better than this, but in 1944 he surprised everyone with his very strong performance in Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, and the following year he got even more positive reviews for his role as the alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1954, when Milland was pushing 50, he was offered the role of the duplicitous husband in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, and he gave one of the best performances of his career. But roles started drying up for the aging balding leading man, and he started taking many TV roles. He also took the lead roles in some truly dreadful low budget horror movies (including The Thing with Two Heads, where he played a rich white racist who had to spend the entire movie tied into a ridiculous body suit with giant black pro football player Rosey Grier!), although he did make a strong appearance as the father in Love Story, and he guest starred in two memorable Columbo episodes. Milland was a really first-rate actor, and when he had an important role for a top level director he proved he was as good as anyone, but sadly much of his career was spent on minor roles or in very minor movies. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 79 AND Marsha Hunt is a a model, singer, and actress from the 1930s to the present. She started out as a teenage John Powers fashion model, she began singing as well, and she went to Hollywood in 1935, when she was 18 years old, and was signed with Paramount, but never became a top star, playing secondary roles in major movies and starring in secondary movies. She made 54 films through 1949, but in the 1950s, she and her husband Robert Presnell Jr. were caught up in the Blacklist (for her strong support of freedom of speech, and not for any communist activity), and that pretty much ended her film career. She makes occasional appearances, and was in a movie in 2008 at the age of 91! As of 2021, she is still alive at the age of 104! Important Added Info: Note that this still is a key book still, printed on a deluxe heavyweight paper stock. Many studios spent extra money to have their most special photos, the key book stills, either backed with linen or printed on a heavy paper, both of which enhanced their durability. They had an extra 1" at the left or top, with punch holes, because of how they were stored. Key book stills are far more rare than regular stills, which has increased their popularity among collectors, since only a few keybooks were manufactured per film, and a key book still is guaranteed to be authentic. Someone trimmed away the extra 1" from the top of the still. Condition: very good. The top 1" was neatly trimmed off (see above). Otherwise, the still is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades
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