Tragic Screen Star Jean Seberg Original 8x10 Color Film Transparency Airport1970

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ITEM: This is a vintage and original 8x10 Kodak Safety Film color transparency featuring a whimsical outdoors portrait of actress Jean Seberg. The screen star wears a floral patterned outfit as she poses in a field of flowers. This photo shoot was done in promotion of the 1970 Universal film, "Airport". It is accompanied by an original studio press snipe which reads:
JEAN SEBERG STARS IN ROSS HUNTER'S "AIRPORT"
Jean Seberg portrays the airline passenger relations executive who is in love with the airport manager, Burt Lancaster, in Ross Hunter's "Airport" for Universal. The film adaptation of Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel. Dean Martin, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin and Maureen Stapleton also star in the multi-million production directed by George Seaton, who also wrote the screenplay.
The career of actress Jean Seberg began with seemingly unlimited promise: A small-town girl from the heartland of America, she created an overnight sensation when she was selected from a pool of 18,000 candidates for what seemed a certain future of fame and celebrity. The dream quickly became a nightmare, however, and both her career and her life spiralled out of control as she became a victim of unrealized expectations, exploitative films, and even her own ideals.
PLEASE NOTE: This auction is for the 8x10 Kodak transparency only. There are no copyright or reproduction rights included in the final sale.
Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
More about Jean Seberg:
Jean Seberg was a gamine, blonde actress who landed the title role in Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan" (1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. She was best-known, however, for her contribution to New Wave cinema. The fresh-faced Iowan started acting in high school, but was a completely unknown 17-year-old when Preminger whisked her off to England. "Saint Joan" and its star were critically slammed, but Preminger went on to star her again in the soap opera "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), which was scandalous and "modern" enough to buoy Seberg's career. After the silly but popular British comedy "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), Seberg was cast in Jean-Luc Godard's landmark New Wave feature "A Bout de souffle/Breathless" (1959), which brought her renewed international attention. As an American in Paris, selling papers on the streets and romancing wanted criminal Jean-Paul Belmondo, she gave a careless, modern and very hip performance. Seberg hopped back and forth from America to Europe, making a total of 30 films. In Mervyn LeRoy's "Moment to Moment" (1966), she was a professor's bored wife who drifts into an affair with murderous results. Seberg was another cheating wife in Irvin Kershner's "A Fine Madness" (also 1966) and played a woman sold to a hard-drinking prospector (Lee Marvin) in Joshua Logan's musical "Paint Your Wagon" (1969). Seberg was the passenger relations expert in the all-star blockbuster "Airport" (1970) and a woman going mad in Northern Africa in "Ondata di Calore/Dead of Summer" (1970). Her last feature was "Die Wildente/The Wild Duck" (1976), a German-language version of the Henrik Ibsen play. Seberg made her only US TV appearance in the ABC movie "Mousey" (1974), which co-starred Kirk Douglas and silent film veteran Bessie Love.
Biography From: TCM | Turner Classic Movies