Promo: The Front Page (1974) Then & Now
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- Promo: The Front Page (1974) Then & Now
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Front:
Two B&W photographs in landscape, both of the same scene. On the left, The Front Page (1931): Hildy Johnson (Pat O’Brien, left) and Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou, right) are handcuffed and about to be arrested by Officer Jacobi (Richard Andersen, center, uncredited) for their meddling in an unveiled corruption case. On the right, The Front Page (1974): Officer Jacobi (Cliff Osmond, center) has Johnson (Jack Lemmon, left) and Burns (Walter Matthau, right) handcuffed for aiding and abetting a fugitive.
Back:
Typewritten:
2071-89 THE FRONT PAGE UNIVERSAL STUDIO
THEN AND NOW– When the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArt[h]ur stage hit “The Front Page,” was first filmed by Hollywood in 1930, the stars were Pat O’Brien, left, as the Chicago Examiner’s fast-talking reporter Hildy Johnson, Adolphe Menjou in the role of crusty managing editor Walter Burns, and Dick Alexander, center, as arresting officer Jacobi. In the new screen version of the newspaper drama, right, Jack Lemmon is Hildy, Malter Matthau is Burns, and Cliff Osmond if the policeman who puts handcuffs on them.
Billy Wilder’s film of “The Front Page,” starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Carol Burnett, was produced by Paul Monash and directed by Billy Wilder, with Jennings Lang as executive producer. The screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and was filmed in Technicolor Panavision. The Universal Picture about newspapermen in Chicago in 1929 co-stars Vincent Gardenia, Susan Sarandon, Allen Garfield, David Wayne. Charles Durning, and Austin Pendleton.
Phillips has added the “h” to “MacArthur” in the first paragraph and circled it.
Handwritten label “Return to Phillips,” and numbered 41. Marked with a sticky note labeled “Phillips 41,” “4,” “47%,” and “p7 A.” Stamped to return to Phillips at Loyola University. - Date Created
- 1974
