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Columbia Pictures Pub. Photo: Who's with Valentino?
Unsigned 1950 Columbia Pictures publicity 8x10 print of a man standing next to a painting of Rudolf Valentino from his 1921 movie, The Sheik. Do you know who the man standing next to the painting is?
This is from Autograph Collector Magazine's archive.
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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on
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IDK, but the painting is amateur at best if that helps.
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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on
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It looks like one of the paintings made for movie posters but I haven't found a match. This is a Columbia pub photo so the person is probably an actor.
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I guess, but to my eye the subject of that photograph is the painting. The date might mean something.
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Actually, it was probably painted for the 1951 Columbia Pictures movie Valentino. That doesn't look like Anthony Dexter to me, the actor who played him.
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It may be more about the film/painting than the actor. That is my guess.
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Considering the copyright date of 1950 (filming June 2 through summer) and the release date of March 10th, 1951 this is likely an early publicity still as there is no other studio data etc. on the Obverse, although sometimes there is just a copyright date and studio name. I think that is either the artist or a producer/crew erc. in the photo. I am not seeing this painting in any promo materials. The anatomical proportions are so very bizarre and the painting so poor I can't see this being used for anything serious. The only other thing I can say is the photo is credited to Christie - the still photographer for Valentino was Irving Lippman (who did my best 1951 Death of a Salesman stills with Fredric March) and he'd his own stamp. This might be due to the presumably early date.
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