PV: “Give me an example of a story that means something. In your opinion.”
HG: “Wuthering Heights.”
PV: “You can’t compare my story with Wuthering Heights. That’s one of the greatest books in the world!”
HG: “It is, isn’t it? My wild sweet Cathy. I cried millions of tears. I saw it ten times.”– Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak discuss literature and movies in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Audrey Hepburn (American, 1929 – 1993), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) 8″ x 10″
These pictures of mov ie stars and films from the mid 20th Century and later were circulated to press and PRs when the movies were released. We see Mae West and her men, Dustin Hoffman and Mrs. Robinson’s stockinged leg, Jack Nicholson, Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita and more from Andy Warhol, John Waters and Marilyn Monroe in the brilliant Some Like It Hot.
Jerry Stiller (American, 1927 – 2020) , Ricki Lake (American, 1968), Divine (American, 1945 – 1988), Colleen Fitzpatrick (American, 1969), Deborah Harry (American, 1945), and Sonny Bono (American, 1935 – 1998), Hairspray (1988) 8″ x 10″.jpeg
John Waters (American, 1946) photographed by Henny Garfunkel (American, 1947), Hairspray (1988) 8″ x 10″
Federico Fellini (Italian, 1920 – 1993) directing La Dolce Vita (1959) 8″ x 6″
Andy Warhol (American, 1928 – 1987) photographed by Billy Name (American, 1940 – 2016) 9.5″ x 13″
Janet Leigh (American, 1927 – 2004), Psycho (1960) 8″ x 10″
Mae West (American, 1893 – 1980), Goin’ to Town (1935)
Elizabeth Taylor (British, 1932 – 2011) photographed by Roddy Macdowall (British, 1928 – 1998), Cleopatra (1963) 11″ x 14″
Anita Ekberg (Swedish, 1931 – 2015), La Dolce Vita (1959) 8″ x 10″
Jack Nicholson (American, 1937), The Shining (1980) 8″ x 10″
Warren Beatty (American, 1937) and Faye Dunaway (American, 1941), Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 8″ x 10″
Robert De Niro (American, 1943), Taxi Driver (1976) 8″ x 10″
Lenny Montana (American, 1926 – 1992), The Godfather (1972) 8″ x 10″
Vivien Leigh (British, 1913 – 1967) and Marlon Brando (American, 1924 – 2004), A Streetcar Named Desie (1951) 8″ x 10″
Dustin Hoffman (American, 1937), The Graduate (1967) 8″ x 10
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