Hollywood Frame by Frame: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets: Behind the Scenes: Cinema's Unseen Contact Sheets by Karina Longworth

Author:Karina Longworth [Longworth, Karina]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Octopus Books
Published: 2014-06-30T04:00:00+00:00

THE GRADUATE

1967

Director: Mike Nichols

Photographer: Frank Shugrue

This contact sheet would seem to document the creation of two of the most memorable images from the classic satirical drama that made Dustin Hoffman a star, and with Bonnie and Clyde, touched off a new era in American film: the scene in which Benjamin (Hoffman) attempts a post-coital conversation with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft); and the shot of Benjamin obstructed by his older lover’s outstretched leg, which was used for the movie’s famous poster. But when it comes to movie still photography, appearances can be deceiving. While the first half of the sheet resembles frames from the finished film closely enough that they could have been shot during the filming of that awkward, intimate scene, the even more famous frames below and shown above were likely taken outside of the shooting schedule, solely for publicity purposes—and the leg likely doesn’t belong to Bancroft. Actress Linda Gray, the future star of the TV series Dallas, has admitted that she stood in for Bancroft as the uncredited model for The Graduate’s poster shoot. “I got paid $25,” Gray has said. “For one leg, that was good.”55 Gray would later get to play Mrs. Robinson with her entire body, in a 2001 London theater production of The Graduate.

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