Paris Blues

Martin Ritt (director)
Harold Flender (novel)
Walter Bernstein, Irene Kamp, Jack Sher, Lulla Rosenfeld (screenwriters)
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong (starring)

N.p. N.p., Circa 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1961 film, showing actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward kissing on the streets of Paris. With manuscript ink and pencil annotations on the verso, identifying Woodward and Newman.

From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler.

In 1960s Paris, two expatriate jazz musicians—one white (Newman), one Black (Sidney Poitier)—are torn between staying in France and moving back to America when they fall in love with two American tourist girls.

Set and shot on location in Paris.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.


[Book #152347]