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• Auction House:
  Theodore Bruce
• Sale Name:
  Bill Collins Golden Years of Hollywood Auction
• Sale Date:
  18 Oct 2020 ~ 11am (AEDT)
• Lot #:
  4284
• Lot Description:
  Kirk Douglas. Seven (7) sepia / black & white photographs
  25cm x 21cm. Creases to the edges of the photographs.
• Notes:
  Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 - February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director, philanthropist, and writer. During his career, he appeared in more than 90 films. Douglas was known for his explosive acting style, which he displayed as a criminal defense attorney in Town Without Pity (1961). Douglas became an international star through positive reception for his leading role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion (1949), which brought him his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. His other early films include Young Man with a Horn (1950), playing opposite Lauren Bacall and Doris Day, Ace in the Hole opposite Jan Sterling (1951), and Detective Story (1951), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actor in a Drama. He received a second Oscar nomination for his dramatic role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), opposite Lana Turner, and his third Oscar nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956), which landed him a second Golden Globe nomination. In 1955, he established Bryna Productions, which began producing films as varied as Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960). In those two films, he collaborated with the then-relatively-unknown director Stanley Kubrick, taking lead roles in both films. Douglas has been praised for helping to break the Hollywood blacklist by having Dalton Trumbo write Spartacus with an official on-screen credit. He produced and starred in Lonely Are the Brave (1962), considered a classic, and Seven Days in May (1964), opposite Burt Lancaster, with whom he made seven films. As an actor and philanthropist, Douglas received three Academy Award nominations, an honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. A centenarian, he was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age.
• Estimate:
  A$50 - 100
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Collectables

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