eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1t125 AUDREY HEPBURN/FRED ZINNEMANN/ROSALIND RUSSELL 8x10 still 1967 at 39th Annual Academy Awards! Date Sold 11/26/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Still (Learn More) Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Ixelles, Belgium in 1929. Her father was a wealthy English banker, and her mother was a Dutch baroness. She had dual citizenship, and she spent much time in England growing up. In 1935, her parents divorced (her father was a Nazi sympathizer) and she went to a school in England for three years. In 1938 her mother moved to the Netherlands, and she went to school there and studied ballet. In 1940, the Netherlands were occupied by the Nazis, and Hepburn spent the rest of the war living in a Nazi occupied country. After the war, she lived in Amsterdam and continued studying and performing ballet. But she could not earn much money, and in 1948 she started acting as well, and also modeling. She appeared in several minor roles over the next few years.In 1951 she played the lead in in the Broadway play Gigi, and the following year she had her best film role to date in Secret People.The next year she starred in Roman Holiday (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) opposite Gregory Peck, and that made her an international star. After she filmed Roman Holiday she returned to New York and starred in Gigi for another eight months! The following year she starred in Sabrina (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), opposite Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. After filming, she returned to the stage and starred in Ondine, and won a Tony Award, at the same time she was receiving her Oscar for Roman Holiday! She followed with a long string of hits, including Nun's Story (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Breakfast At Tiffany's (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and My Fair Lady (she did not know until after signing to star that she would not sing in the movie). She did not star in the movie version of Gigi because she wanted to star in Funny Face instead, because she had been a professional dancer and she got to dance with Fred Astaire. In 1967 she starred in the fine thriller Wait Until Dark (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and she decided to retire at the peak of her career and devote her time to her children, something few actors have ever done. She came out of retirement for the wonderful Robin and Marian in 1976 (opposite Sean Connery) and then made four more movies over the next 13 years, and passed away in 1993 from an unusual form of abdominal cancer at the age of 63. Just as Marilyn Monroe was THE female icon of the 1950s, Audrey Hepburn was THE female icon of the 1960s. Will there ever be another actress who has this much impact on the world? I doubt it! AND Fred Zinnemann was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He excelled at the violin as a youth, and wanted to make that his career, but changed his mind and decided to become a lawyer. But while in college he discovered film making, and he went to Germany and became a cameraman! In 1930, he was one of the four directors on the German movie Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday). The other three directors also all went on to illustrious careers: Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, and Edgar G. Ulmer, but oddly all would be primarily known for horror movies! Zinnemann moved to the U.S. in 1930, but it wasn't until 1937 that he starting directing, and at first all he got were short subjects for MGM. In 1942, he got to direct the B-movie, Kid Glove Killer, and it is a fine movie that got Zinnemann noticed. He directed four more movies by 1947, but he made his major breakthrough in 1948 when he directed The Search (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), a really fine movie which marked Montgomery Clift's debut in movies. In 1950, he directed Marlon Brando in HIS first movie, The Men, and in 1952 he directed both the classic High Noon and The Member of the Wedding which was Julie Harris' first movie. The following year he directed the marvelous From Here to Eternity. He started spending more time on his movies, doing one every two years or so, but the quality remained super-high. He did Oklahoma, A Hatful of Rain, The Nun's Story, and The Sundowners! He then took a four year break before returning with Behold a Pale Horse and A Man for All Seasons (perhaps my favorite movie ever!). He then took seven years off before returning with the perfect thriller, The Day of the Jackal, and four years later he made Julia, and five years later he made Five Days One Summer, the only lesser movie once he hit his stride, and he wisely retired. Fred Zinnemann's career most closely parallels that of Stanley Kubrick, a great filmmaker who crafted his best movies into perfect gems, but sadly, because he was not an "auteur" with a clearly recognizable directorial style, he is not regarded as highly as Kubrick (similar to a great director of a generation earlier, William Wyler). This is sad, because Zinnemann's best movies (and there were a lot of them!) rank in the very finest movies ever made! He passed away in 1997 at the age of 89 AND Rosalind Russell (born Catherine Rosalind Russell) was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. Her middle name, which she used when she performed, came from the name of a ship! She was far from an overnight success. She did not start acting in movies until she was 27, and for several years, she was used by MGM to keep Myrna Loy from demanding more money! She mostly had secondary parts. In 1939, her skill at comedy was discovered when she played one of the leads in The Women, and that led to her starring role in His Girl Friday, playing a part written for a man. She alternated between making movies and appearing on the stage, and she had great success on both with Auntie Mame (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). Some of her other movies include: Sister Kenny (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), My Sister Eileen (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and Mourning Becomes Electra (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). She passed away in 1976 at the age of 69. Important Added Info: The still is in very nice condition! Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades
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