A Chorus Line

Alan Pappe (photographer)
Marvin Hamlisch (composer)
Michael Douglas, Alyson Reed, Terrence Mann, Sharon Brown (starring)
Richard Attenborough (director)
Edward Kleban, James Kirkwood Jr., Nicholas Dante (play)
Arnold Schulman (screenwriter)

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1985. Double weight photograph from the 1985 film. With the stamp of photographer Alan Pappe on the verso, his numerical manuscript pencil notation, and a snipe identifying the image. Struck by Pappe circa 1990s, from his archive.

Pappe worked as a film still and press photographer for 30 years, photographing a who's who of film and music stars, including iconic images of Sharon Tate, Jimi Hendrix, and Liza Minnelli, as well as album cover for the "Grease" soundtrack album, and the interior images of Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." His 1972 "Time" magazine cover photograph of Minnelli in "Cabaret" is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.

Based on the 1975 Broadway musical, with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante. Nominated for three Academy Awards.

14 x 11 inches, with wide margins. Near Fine.


[Book #149038]