37 8x10 Photos COPPOLA ' S 1st Movie BELLBOY/PLAYGIRLS Topless JUNE WILKINSON 1962
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This is a group of thirty-seven different glossy black and white photographs on fairly-flexible paper. Each one measures approx. 8 in. by 10 in., white margins included. All 37 images are shown in the first three photos, above. The remaining photos are close-ups. All but three of the photographs are captioned, but oddly the captions on the horizontal images say, “June Wilkinson in ‘The Playgirls and the Bellboy’” while on the vertical images they say – “June Wilkinson in ...‘The Bellboy and the Playgirls’.” Both of those titles appear in various places online. Wikipedia and IMDB are both using the latter. For me it’s hard to tell if all of the images include Ms. Wilkinson, despite her being named in all of the captions. She has many different looks in various wigs with differing make-up, but I think some of the women look too much unlike her to be her. IMDB names more than half a dozen other women in its “Top Cast” list for this film. Here’s a portion of the Wikipedia entry for the movie: “… a 1962 American film by Francis Ford Coppola and Jack Hill. The film is a re-edited version of a West German film… by Fritz Umgelter, with Coppola and Hill shooting nudity inserted into the film for an American release. “The German production… was in black and white but Coppola said that he filmed around 15 minutes of footage in 3D and in color to add to the American release. The new footage featured nude women and took Coppola a few days to complete. Coppola said that the project was ‘adding five three-minute nudie sketches in color to a stupid German movie that had been shot in black-and-white’… June Wilkinson, a Playboy Bunny, is featured in the segments… “… Hill received $25 for his work on the film and Coppola received $250. Coppola was a student at [UCLA] film school and his classmates did not agree with his choice of going into exploitation films. Coppola said, ‘I was called a cop-out, because I was willing to compromise’. “The film print was believed to be lost after the film's initial release in 1962 and subsequent release on videotape but a collector of Coppola memorabilia had a print of the film. The book Godfather: The Intimate Francis Ford Coppola states that ‘Coppola's color footage is easily identifiable in the finished film’ and that ‘the five Coppola sequences add up to nearly fifty minutes of screen time.’” AND, here are a few excerpts from Ms. Wilkinson’s Wikipedia entry: June Wilkinson (born 27 March 1940…) is an English model and actress, known for her appearances in Playboy magazine and in films of the 1960s. One of the world's most-photographed women in the late 1950s and early 1960s, at the height of her career she was called "the most photographed nude in America. “… Though she was never an official Playboy Playmate, she was featured in the magazine on seven separate occasions and was one of the magazine's most popular photo subjects. She appeared in more than fifty other men's magazines and newspapers from 1958 to 1970, making her one of the most-photographed models of the era. “… She met Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback for the Houston Oilers and Oakland Raiders in 1972, and they were married in 1973. They co-starred in the 1974 film Florida Connection (also known as Weed), for the producer of Rage. The couple divorced in 1982, and Wilkinson never remarried. “ Condition - a few bits of corner and edge wear here and there; generally very light wear/soil otherwise; the backs are all blank; a couple of the close-up photos, above, have a slight sepia tone to them from my camera, but these images are all black and white. Thanks for bidding!
