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Auction History Result 3x0395 JOHN SCHLESINGER signed 3x5 index card 1980s it can be framed with an original or repro still! Date Sold 2/19/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Autographed 3" x 5" [8 x 13 cm] Index Card (Learn More) John Schlesinger was born in London, England in 1926. He went to Oxford, and while there he made a short film "Black Legend" in 1948. He mostly worked as an actor in the 1950s but in 1958 he started making documentaries for the BBC. In 1960, he made a documentary "Terminus" (about the Waterloo railway station), which won him a British Academy Award. In 1962, he made A Kind of Loving (starring Alan Bates) and in 1963 Billy Liar (starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie in a small role) and both of these fine movies were well received. He followed with Darling in 1965 (starring Christie as a model who sleeps her way to the top), and in 1967 he made Far from the Madding Crowd, starring Christie, Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp, and the movie was not successful on its first release, but many (including myself) consider it a wonderful movie! He went to America to make Midnight Cowboy, and this beautiful movie won the Best Picture Oscar, even though it was at first X-rated. He returned to England and made Sunday Bloody Sunday, a very unusual romantic bi-sexual love triangle about a man and a woman in love with the same man! It stars Peter Finch, Glenda Jackson and Murray Head. Schlesinger did not do much the next few years, directing one of the segments of Visions of Eight. He returned in 1975 with the ultra-depressing The Day of the Locust. The following year he made the thriller, Marathon Man. He had originally wanted Al Pacino for the lead, but producer Robert Evans (who intensely disliked Pacino) refused and Dustin Hoffman was cast. Also in the movie were Laurence Olivier and Roy Scheider, and I think the movie is one of the best ever of its kind (it is the movie with the memorable "Is it safe" scene which is a must viewing before any visit to the dentist). Schlesinger seemed to lose his way after this long string of excellent movies. He made 14 more movies (some for TV) but none came close to matching his earlier successes, and a few were downright embarrassing. But at the height of his career he made some of the most interesting movies ever made (and many of the top actors of his time returned to work with him over and over), and those movies well illustrate exactly what is most missing in modern movies (excellent scripts that are well acted and directed). Schlesinger passed away in 2003 at the age of 77. Important Added Info: This index card has been personally autographed (signed) by John Schlesinger! The index card could be matted with a vintage or repro still and framed together to make a cool display! Our consignor is a longtime dealer who acquired this signed item among many other purchases in his inventory, and he does not have a certificate of authenticity, but we believe the signature to likely be authentic. As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased (although we prefer they do any "authenticating" while the auction is "live" and before they place a bid) and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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