Description
The American Film Institute, Published 1976. Press kit, ten items loose in the original printed folder; 29 cm; with four original black-and-white photographs.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
111
Turn the pages with the arrows, keyboard, or a swipe.
Catalog notes
Condition & notes
In Very Good condition, the folder Good. Red folder printed in white with the AFI filmstrip and star device, showing mild bumping and soiling, some color loss along edges and corners, small chips and short tears to edges, and creasing to the inside pocket folds. Contents show light toning and a few corner creases. Photographs clean. Working press kit issued to journalists for the fourth annual AFI Life Achievement Award, not the souvenir program sold at the dinner. Wyler followed John Ford, James Cagney and Orson Welles; the testimonial dinner was held March 9, 1976 at the Century Plaza Hotel and broadcast by CBS on March 14 as a 90-minute special produced by George Stevens Jr., with Nelson Riddle as musical director. The credits sheet lists the participants: Eddie Albert, Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Greer Garson, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Myrna Loy, Merle Oberon, Gregory Peck, Walter Pidgeon, Harold Russell, James Stewart, Barbra Streisand and Jessamyn West. The AFI essay gathers first-hand recollection, including Merle Oberon and Walter Pidgeon arguing in a CBS make-up room over why Wyler was so feared by his actors, and the account of Wyler telling the cameraman to keep rolling after he had called "Cut" on Audrey Hepburn's Roman Holiday screen test. A separate release announces the AFI-William Wyler Scholarships, presented at the dinner by Maya Angelou, then an AFI trustee. Wyler died in 1981. Contents: William Wyler Biography, 12 pp; William Wyler Filmography, 8 pp; Wyler At Work, As Seen by Himself and Those Close to Him, 6 pp; CBS Television Specials announcement dated January 12, 1976, 2 pp; CBS production credits for The American Film Institute Salute to William Wyler dated March 8, 1976, 1 p; American Film Institute release announcing the AFI-William Wyler Scholarships, 1 p; four original black-and-white photographs.