Alexa here from
Pop Elegantiarum to share another vintage film curio. Occasionally you'll see these pop up on ebay, and I always find them interesting: a vintage Academy Players Directory. These were the casting bibles back on the day (apparently they still exist, but the Academy no longer publishes them).
Vintage Funland is selling this one from 1961.
It covers "Leading Men," "Younger Leading Men" (hmmm, wonder if the same categories applied to women) and "Characters and Comedians." Inside is Jack Nicholson, back when his main film credit was
Little Shop of Horrors:
Also inside is a young Robert Redford, who had mostly television credits to his name:
It is available
here, if you have $44 to spare. I'm still waiting to find one featuring a young Meryl Streep, fresh out of Yale.
It covers "Leading Men," "Younger Leading Men" (hmmm, wonder if the same categories applied to women) and "Characters and Comedians." Inside is Jack Nicholson, back when his main film credit was Little Shop of Horrors:
Also inside is a young Robert Redford, who had mostly television credits to his name:
It is available here, if you have $44 to spare. I'm still waiting to find one featuring a young Meryl Streep, fresh out of Yale.
