Orson Welles MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS Original photograph from the set of #149126

Description

The Magnificent Ambersons (Original photograph from the set of the 1942 film)
Author:
Orson Welles (director, screenwriter); Booth Tarkington (novel); Alexander Kahle, Phil Stern (still photographers); Joseph Cotton, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead (starring)
Title:
The Magnificent Ambersons (Original photograph from the set of the 1942 film)
Publication:
Hollywood: Mercury, 1942
Description:
Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1942 film showing director Orson Welles, cinematographer Stanley Cortez, and members of the cast, including Joseph Cotton, Anges Moorehead, and Anne Baxter, conferring during a lunch break. Mimeo snipe promoting Welles' Mercury Players, and "APR 13 1942" stamp on verso.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington.
Welles' followup to "Citizen Kane" (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in its own way. Writer-director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine fashion on Amberson Mansion, the most ostentatious dwelling in all of turn-of-century Indianapolis. Despite the legendarily unsolvable problem of film editor Robert Wise being instructed by the studio-outside Welles' knowledge-to edit away nearly an hour of the film's length, it remains a masterpiece of storytelling, bringing Tarkington's Pulitzer winning novel to life in high style.
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, and Best Supporting Actress for Moorehead.
8 x 10 inches. Faint glue shadow from snipe, else Near Fine.
Complete collation details available on request.
Rosenbaum 1000. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Scorsese, A Personal Journey Through American Movies.
Seller ID:
149126
Subject:
1940s Cinema, Academy Awards, Directors, Film Still Photographs, Films with Literary Sources, National Film Registry, On the Set, Photographs, Romance
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