eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6s269 ERIC IDLE signed 8x10 still 1983 dressed as old lady from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life! Date Sold 5/27/2018Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Autographed 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Eric Idle was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England in 1943. His father died when he was 2, and he was sent to live in a boarding school when he was 7. He went to the University of Cambridge where he joined the Footlights Club and met fellow members Graham Chapman and John Cleese, who were a year ahead of him. After graduation, he starred in the children's TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set opposite Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam did animation for the show. In 1969, Idle and the above five people started the classic English TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. They wrote the sketches and performed them, with frequent (and often bizarre) animation by Terry Gilliam. Words fail me as to how to explain the humor of this show, but it certainly was unlike anything seen to that time! In 1971, the Python troupe did a feature movie, And Now for Something Completely Different, in which they recreated the best sketches from their TV show. The movie was intended to widen their appeal, but it was just too weird for most audiences in the U.S. In 1975, they released Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which had somewhat of a plot, and was much more successful. In 1978, Idle took a break from Monty Python and wrote, directed and starred in The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a mockumentary of a Beatles-like band. In 1979, he and the Monty Python members did Monty Python's Life of Brian (produced by George Harrison, a friend of Idle's), which was their most outrageous movie (due to the sacriligeous subject matter) and their most successful. The closing song "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" (sung by men on crucifixes!) was composed by Idle. In 1983, he and the Monty Python members did The Meaning of Life. In 2003, Idle wrote the book and lyrics for Spamalot, "lovingly ripped off from" the group's 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It was an enormous success on Broadway and elsewhere. The above are just the highlights of Eric Idle's hugely successful career, both with and without the other Monty Python members. He has also written several books and much music! As of 2021, he is still alive at the age of 78. Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by Eric Idle! Note that this autographed 8x10 is part of a remarkable new collection we have been consigned, and we are auctioning nearly 500 items from this collection in this set of auctions (we will have more from this collection in our next few sets of autograph auctions). In the 1970s, our consignor was a high school teacher who taught a film class, and one day a week (and all through the summer) he ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits and one-sheets from the movies the theater showed). Starting in the late 1970s, but increasingly greatly in the early 1980s, he hit on the idea of writing to famous celebrities, and enclosing an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star. He often was able to locate an 8x10 still from his collection that was from a really good movie from that star, or one that had a really good image of that star. In a relatively small number of cases, he did not have a still in his collection to send, so he bought a reproduction from a photo shop, and sent that instead, which is why some of the items that have this notation on them are reproductions. He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them. In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the mid-1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor! He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves. 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 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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