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Tacky (or great) paintings/portraits created specifically for movies

For what is universally regarded as one of the great films, the portrait of Carlotta in Vertigo is absurdly crude. The fact that it’s a key plot point and occupies high rent museum space makes it even more ridiculous.

What made for the movies artworks stand out for you.

Yes R1, you may post porn if that amuses you.

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by Anonymousreply 125October 21, 2019 9:36 AM

Carlotta's on Find-a-Grave:

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by Anonymousreply 1October 18, 2019 4:12 AM

I can't decide if the portrait of Scarlett in GWTW, is good or not.

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by Anonymousreply 2October 18, 2019 4:12 AM

The picture of Dorian Gray from the 1944 movie. It always reminded of a heavy metal album cover.

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by Anonymousreply 3October 18, 2019 4:14 AM

Laura. Great movie and great portrait.

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by Anonymousreply 4October 18, 2019 4:17 AM

Carlotta always makes me laugh. One suspects Hitchcock is trolling us! Or maybe for some reason he's trolling the Legion of Honor.

by Anonymousreply 5October 18, 2019 4:17 AM

Mr. and Mrs. Tony Montana

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by Anonymousreply 6October 18, 2019 4:18 AM

I’m with you R5.

by Anonymousreply 7October 18, 2019 4:18 AM

The Portrait of Jennie, which at the end of the 1948 b&w movie is finally shown in Technicolor, and hanging in no less than the Met!

by Anonymousreply 8October 18, 2019 4:20 AM

Well this is certainly tacky.

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by Anonymousreply 9October 18, 2019 4:22 AM

Oh! You can buy the SCARFACE prop!

[quote]Lot #: 379 Ω

[quote]Hand-Painted Mansion Portrait of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeifer) SCARFACE (1983)

[quote]A hand-painted portrait of Tony Montana (Al Pacino) and Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer) from Brian De Palma's crime drama Scarface. Tony Montana's portrait hung on the first floor of his mansion. The painting is seen in numerous scenes, however the bullet holes are not seen in the final cut of the film.

[quote]The large painting is rendered in acrylic paint on canvas, and shows Elvira wearing a red gown as she sits in a lavish chair, with Tony wearing a tuxedo as he stands proudly behind her. The portrait shows ten holes from being shot up during the violent gunfight at the end of the film, and tape residue on the back of the canvas from where squibs were previously attached.

[quote]Paired with the mansion portrait is a reference photograph of Tony and Elvira that assisted the portrait artist in painting the piece. The lot also includes three behind-the-scenes stills of the production crew on set with the portrait. Following the production, the painting was rolled and gifted to a crew member. The lot shows minor wear due to production use and age, and the portrait is rolled. However, the piece remains in very fine condition. Dimensions (portrait): 241 cm x 160 cm (95' x 63'); (photograph): 25 cm x 20 cm x 1 cm (10' x 8' x 1/4')

[quote]Please note this lot is sold without copyright, reproduction rights, licensing agreements or any other type of legal releases.

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by Anonymousreply 10October 18, 2019 4:23 AM

Bohemian Big Sur artist with her masterpiece, "Child with Extra-Large Strawberry Ice Cream Cone".

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by Anonymousreply 11October 18, 2019 4:25 AM

Joan Crawford for the pilot episode of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery, where every story had its own original artwork.

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by Anonymousreply 12October 18, 2019 4:26 AM

Wasn't my mom a Betty?!?

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by Anonymousreply 13October 18, 2019 4:29 AM

I’m Alive

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by Anonymousreply 14October 18, 2019 4:34 AM

My favorite all time movie portrait, Harvey and Elwood P. Dowd.

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by Anonymousreply 15October 18, 2019 4:44 AM

Working Girl Warhols

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by Anonymousreply 16October 18, 2019 4:47 AM

Leo’s inept drawing of Winslet drew them improbably closer together.

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by Anonymousreply 17October 18, 2019 4:48 AM

Francesco Clemente's work in Great Expectations.

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by Anonymousreply 18October 18, 2019 4:50 AM

Rebecca de Winter, from the movie Rebecca starring Joan Fontaine and Lawrence Olivier.

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by Anonymousreply 19October 18, 2019 4:54 AM

Goop has inspired many onscreen artists

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by Anonymousreply 20October 18, 2019 4:57 AM

Salvador Dali, for Hitchcock’s Spellbound.

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by Anonymousreply 21October 18, 2019 4:57 AM
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by Anonymousreply 22October 18, 2019 4:57 AM

An Unmarried Woman had very 70s art all over the place.

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by Anonymousreply 23October 18, 2019 5:04 AM

Painting good. Movie bad.

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by Anonymousreply 24October 18, 2019 5:05 AM

Lucy didn’t know that it was Anita Morris who posed for that painting.

by Anonymousreply 25October 18, 2019 5:09 AM

Doug and Carrie portrait, a passive aggressive gift given to them by their black couple best friends after the latter had received an unintentionally racist gift from the Heffernans.

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by Anonymousreply 26October 18, 2019 5:09 AM

some kind of wonderful

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by Anonymousreply 27October 18, 2019 5:10 AM

Bohemian Big Sur artist with her masterpiece, "Child with Extra-Large Strawberry Ice Cream Cone".

I think all the paintings in that movie were actually painted by Tony Duquette's wife.

by Anonymousreply 28October 18, 2019 5:12 AM

Picture Mommy Dead had to be painted twice after Zsa Zsa stepped in for an exhausted Hedy Lamarr, who replaced the neurasthenic original choice, Gene Tierney.

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by Anonymousreply 29October 18, 2019 5:12 AM

This, of course.

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by Anonymousreply 30October 18, 2019 5:14 AM

Plus this one

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by Anonymousreply 31October 18, 2019 5:17 AM

You bitches are slipping

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by Anonymousreply 32October 18, 2019 5:19 AM

Not slipping, not a movie...

by Anonymousreply 33October 18, 2019 5:25 AM

[quote] Picture Mommy Dead had to be painted twice after Zsa Zsa stepped in for an exhausted Hedy Lamarr

It's Hedley, damn it!

by Anonymousreply 34October 18, 2019 5:25 AM

That's not Rebecca DeWinter, that's a portrait at Manderley and Rebecca dressed like the woman in the portrait for a costume party. Later, the evil Mrs Danvers suggested The Nameless Wife should throw a costume party and dress like the portrait because she knew it would freak Max out.

by Anonymousreply 35October 18, 2019 5:25 AM

Vigo the Carpathian - Ghostbusters II

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by Anonymousreply 36October 18, 2019 5:26 AM

Paulette Goddard in one of my favorite movies, Ghost Breakers, dressed as one of her ancestors in the movie.

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by Anonymousreply 37October 18, 2019 6:01 AM

r23, it was all by abstract expressionist Paul Jenkins. He taught Alan Bates to paint like him. I thought about posting him, but I didn't want to place his work among all this truly tacky "art."

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by Anonymousreply 38October 18, 2019 6:06 AM

Bette's Fanny

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by Anonymousreply 39October 18, 2019 6:11 AM

Here's another ghostly portrait from The Uninvited, another great old movie for Halloween. That is Cornelia Otis Skinner standing in front of a portrait of her deceased friend who is haunting Gail Russell and Ray Milland.

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by Anonymousreply 40October 18, 2019 6:56 AM

I have a VERY LARGE, beautiful oil portrait that was commissioned for the film THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE (1950), starring Louis Calhern as SCOTUS Oliver Wendell Holmes. It's not a portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes (which some museum or law school would gladly take). It's a portrait of actor Louis Calhern *as* Oliver Wendell Holmes....which no one wants...because who the hell is Louis Calhern?? (asked everyone under 70)

He was a long time B-actor at MGM. THE MAGNIFICENT YANKEE was sort of a "vanity project", granted to him by MGM for his many years of service. He'd played the role in the stage production of MAGNIFICENT YANKEE.

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by Anonymousreply 41October 18, 2019 7:07 AM

^^ (but the portrait/painting was done from that sitting/photo)

by Anonymousreply 42October 18, 2019 7:10 AM

The fallen Madonna with the big boobies.

by Anonymousreply 43October 18, 2019 7:22 AM

Here we go!

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by Anonymousreply 44October 18, 2019 7:30 AM

Marguerite Wyke in Sleuth. This was probably the only time in film history when a film portrait received its own movie credit.

Her likeness was based on Mrs. Paul Newman.

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by Anonymousreply 45October 18, 2019 7:38 AM

I came here to post that R36! Vigo used to scare me - intense eyes!

by Anonymousreply 46October 18, 2019 7:41 AM

Christiane Kubrick’s lush paintings in “Eyes Wide Shut”. They impressed me so much, now I own two.

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by Anonymousreply 47October 18, 2019 8:53 AM

If I Could Keep Angst In A Bottle

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by Anonymousreply 48October 18, 2019 9:04 AM

I don't know if this qualifies, but the "fashion" shown at the private viewing in "The Devil Wears Prada" always reminds me of the fashion "shows" little girls do at home with their mothers' scarves and old frocks.

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by Anonymousreply 49October 18, 2019 9:15 AM

And who could forget the great Laura! A painting so mesmerizing it caused a hard-boiled detective to fall in love with its subject!

by Anonymousreply 50October 18, 2019 2:15 PM

R41 if you want to give or loan that painting to a museum, have you contacted ones in St. Louis? Though born in Brooklyn, NY, he grew up in and considered STL his hometown. I’m sure a museum there could find room to honor a hometown actor’s Oscar nominated performance.

by Anonymousreply 51October 18, 2019 3:03 PM

The portrait of Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, even though it’s referred to in the script a couple if times as “a very poor painting.”

The family portrait of the society family in Sabrina, with their older versions posed in front, including Humphrey Bogart and William Holden.

The portrait Ronald Colman paints of harridan Ida Lupino in The Light that Failed, before he totally goes blind, and she destroys it.

The portrait of his identical-looking Regency ancestor that obsesses Leslie Howard, in Berkeley Square. (And the one of Tyrone Power in the remake, I’ll Never Forget You.)

Vivien Leigh’s portrait as Lady Hamilton, after Romney.

The portrait of Sarah Miles as Lady Caroline Lamb,

Kirk Douglas’s self-portraits in Lust for Life, as well as other Van Goghesque renditions of Everett Sloane and Niall McGinniss, recreating other portraits.

Spencer Tracy’s portrait as the paterfamilias in Broken Lance.

by Anonymousreply 52October 18, 2019 4:17 PM

Boy with Apple from The Grand Budapest Hotel

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by Anonymousreply 53October 18, 2019 6:28 PM

In the original "In-Laws" movie, there's a scene with Peter Falk and a General Garcia (Richard Libertini) of Tijata, small island south of Honduras. Garcia displays a flag he proposed, but the flag got rejected. Garcia says:

[quote] [commenting on his choice for a new national flag, featuring a portrait of himself alongside a topless local prostitute] If it wasn't for the church, this flag would be flying at the U.N right now. But no... they stand in the way, THEY STAND IN THE WAY!

Sorry, I can't find an image of the flag.

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by Anonymousreply 54October 18, 2019 6:29 PM

Not from a movie, but who can forget the Artanis/Good work?

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by Anonymousreply 55October 18, 2019 6:38 PM

Sweets to the Sweet, via Candyman

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by Anonymousreply 56October 18, 2019 6:56 PM

The Baby Jane doll from "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

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by Anonymousreply 57October 18, 2019 7:04 PM

And where is she today, r57?

by Anonymousreply 58October 18, 2019 7:18 PM

Trisha from Napoleon Dynamite

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by Anonymousreply 59October 18, 2019 7:20 PM

The painting of Laura in "Laura" was actually a large b+w photo print. They gave the photo a few painterly brushstrokes to make it look more like an oil painting. Apparently the painting they commissioned just wasn't up to scratch hence the photo.

by Anonymousreply 60October 18, 2019 7:35 PM

She blossomed stunningly, R58.

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by Anonymousreply 61October 18, 2019 7:38 PM

The painting of Fancy Bates in “The Toy”. The dress slid away, exposing the nude underneath.

Klassy.

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by Anonymousreply 62October 18, 2019 8:02 PM

Here's the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray before its transformation into r3's painting.

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by Anonymousreply 63October 18, 2019 8:15 PM

The portrait at r19 is of Lady Caroline de Winter, one of Maxim’s ancestors. As someone upthread said, it is definitely not a portrait of Rebecca, Max’s first wife, as r19 erroneously claims.

by Anonymousreply 64October 18, 2019 9:03 PM

Bette had quite the collection!

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by Anonymousreply 65October 18, 2019 9:06 PM

There are really fascinating portraits Martin Scorsese had made up for “The Age of Innocence” of three important society figures in the film: Mrs. Manson Mingott, Regina Beaufort, and Louisa van der Luyden. Mrs. van der Luyden (Alexis Smith) is first seen sitting under her portrait grouped with a series of other portraits of her Knickerbocker ancestors to suggest the awe-inspiring importance of her genealogy for people in NY society.

by Anonymousreply 66October 18, 2019 9:10 PM

Kind of like this, r66?

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by Anonymousreply 67October 18, 2019 9:15 PM

OP, the portrait of Carlotta Valdez is intentionally crude. Indeed, it’s actually more sophisticated than most Mid 19th century California portraits were.

by Anonymousreply 68October 18, 2019 9:16 PM

I also did this.

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by Anonymousreply 69October 18, 2019 9:19 PM

[quote] One dog goes one way and the other dog goes the other way. And this guy’s saying, "Whaddya want from me?"

The dog painting by Tommy's mother (Joe Pesci / Catherine Scorcese), Goodfellas.

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by Anonymousreply 70October 18, 2019 9:26 PM

R62 I am glad you posted that, I was thinking of it while reading this thread but couldn't remember which movie it was from!

by Anonymousreply 71October 18, 2019 9:33 PM

Sign from movie Porky's Revenge

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by Anonymousreply 72October 18, 2019 9:40 PM

‘House of Usher’ had a scene with very creepy original paintings portaying the venal Usher family.

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by Anonymousreply 73October 18, 2019 9:51 PM

The pig statue on top of Satriale's pork store, Sopranos.

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by Anonymousreply 74October 18, 2019 9:56 PM

Old Man with Dog, Goodfellas.

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by Anonymousreply 75October 18, 2019 9:58 PM

“The sad Carlotta” I love that line in the movie

by Anonymousreply 76October 18, 2019 10:01 PM

I wore it better!

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by Anonymousreply 77October 18, 2019 11:11 PM

From "Flora," the Carol Burnett parody

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by Anonymousreply 78October 18, 2019 11:15 PM

Two Lesbians Masturbating, The Grand Budapest Hotel

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by Anonymousreply 79October 19, 2019 12:10 AM

I'm jealous R47.

by Anonymousreply 80October 19, 2019 12:22 AM

Kim Novak got a portrait for "The Legend of Lylah Clare." It is not a good portrait and it is not a good movie, either.

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by Anonymousreply 81October 19, 2019 12:30 AM

R79 the lesbians are having sex not masterbating.

by Anonymousreply 82October 19, 2019 12:41 AM

Can't forget zuul from Ghostbusters

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by Anonymousreply 83October 19, 2019 12:46 AM

Of more recent vintage.

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by Anonymousreply 84October 19, 2019 1:06 AM

Robert Hays' painting of 'Nam from "Airplane",

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by Anonymousreply 85October 19, 2019 1:14 AM

Citizen Kane

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by Anonymousreply 86October 19, 2019 1:23 AM

Of course it's not a movie (although now that I think of it, it was,,,,from the spin-off movie), but who can forget the portrait of Barnabas Collins from "Dark Shadows"?

by Anonymousreply 87October 19, 2019 1:37 AM

The painting, ostensibly of Ava Gardner, but based on the original by Goya, entitled "The Naked Maja," in the film of the same name.

by Anonymousreply 88October 19, 2019 1:42 AM

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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by Anonymousreply 89October 19, 2019 2:01 AM

Janice Rule as Willie doing some phallic painting in an empty swimming pool.

--- "Three Women"

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by Anonymousreply 90October 19, 2019 2:06 AM

You bitches are slippin !

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by Anonymousreply 91October 19, 2019 2:06 AM

Oooh, good one, r90!

by Anonymousreply 92October 19, 2019 2:10 AM

The painting of Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) from the classic "Pride and Prejudice." It sold for £12,000 in 2009.

Personally, I thought the painting was neither tacky nor great but kind of "meh." Colin Firth, on the other hand, was definitely more on the "great" side of things.

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by Anonymousreply 93October 19, 2019 2:22 AM

And one of Bette painting...

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by Anonymousreply 94October 19, 2019 3:10 AM

from Brian de Palma's Obsession

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by Anonymousreply 95October 19, 2019 3:18 AM

in Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

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by Anonymousreply 96October 19, 2019 3:20 AM

Bruno's mother's painting in Strangers on a Train

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by Anonymousreply 97October 19, 2019 3:27 AM

Not a painting but a statue of the goddess Ishtar from the low budget horror classic BLOOD FEAST.

Tack-E!

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by Anonymousreply 98October 19, 2019 3:28 AM

The child's drawing in Argento's Deep Red

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by Anonymousreply 99October 19, 2019 3:35 AM

The fetish paintings of Carol Wayne in Heartbreakers (1984). I could only find the album cover of the Tangerine Dream soundtrack.

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by Anonymousreply 100October 19, 2019 3:39 AM

The painting from Laura was also reused in two other movies: On the Riviera (1951) and Woman's World

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by Anonymousreply 101October 19, 2019 3:40 AM

The painting from The Witches.

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by Anonymousreply 102October 19, 2019 3:41 AM

I sat beneath that portrait in Jonathan Frid's Manhattan apartment one night in the early 1990s. He also had the cane and ring in lucite cases on display.

by Anonymousreply 103October 19, 2019 4:43 AM

Jerry's paintings in "An American in Paris" are all mundane and generic, and I have no idea if they were meant to be. Were the audience supposed to think the Gene Kelly character was a real talent, or were they supposed to think it was nice that he was enjoying his time in Paris even though he had no talent?

Quite frankly, almost all the onscreen paintings from the studio era are bad, because I assume that they were created when a matte painter or set painter was told that his next assignment was to paint a portrait from some actor. And that they would work from a photograph and have the damn thing ready in _ days.

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by Anonymousreply 104October 19, 2019 6:15 AM

Portrait of Steve Zissou in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

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by Anonymousreply 105October 19, 2019 8:01 AM

Christopher Walken and Andrew Bryanarski’s portrait in Batman Returns.

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by Anonymousreply 106October 19, 2019 11:29 AM

Raul Julia painted as his insane character M. Bison in the awful Street Fighter.

He died before the movie was released.

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by Anonymousreply 107October 19, 2019 11:38 AM

I really like this, even though it was for a Rocky movie, but I tend to like that painting style in general.

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by Anonymousreply 108October 19, 2019 12:38 PM

R82, that's the title of the painting when I googled it.

by Anonymousreply 109October 19, 2019 12:48 PM

Perhaps because I like paintings so much these all made me physically nauseous.

by Anonymousreply 110October 19, 2019 12:51 PM

Not a paintings, but art used in 'Rawhide'. There's both sketches bronze statues used in the opening credits.

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by Anonymousreply 111October 19, 2019 12:53 PM

Well, R110, if you vomit on a canvas, you’ll have a LeRoy Neiman.

by Anonymousreply 112October 19, 2019 12:54 PM

This thread has included just about every painting from a movie that I can think of.

Except for this one, from The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. If you ever saw this movie as a child, you never forgot the image of Mrs. Simmons with the garden shears in her neck, blood streaming down.

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by Anonymousreply 113October 19, 2019 1:24 PM

While it was a TV series, not a movie, "The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies" was the punchline for the entire run of the BBC series 'Allo 'Allo

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by Anonymousreply 114October 19, 2019 1:33 PM

The painting in R91 is from the 1973 movie "Arnold" with DL legend Stella Stevens,since no one remarked on it or even asked!

by Anonymousreply 115October 19, 2019 3:22 PM

R107 I admit I saw that movie in the theater. I was a kid obsessed with SF on the Super Nintendo and begged my dad to take me too watch it.

Did you know that Street Fighter: The movie video game for PlayStation is the only video game based on a movie that is based on a video game?

by Anonymousreply 116October 19, 2019 3:33 PM

In Polyester, Dexter's foot stomping fetish was redirected into art.

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by Anonymousreply 117October 19, 2019 7:44 PM

Clive Barker's paintings for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

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by Anonymousreply 118October 20, 2019 5:28 AM

Another portrait of Joan Crawford, from The Last of Mrs. Cheyney.

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by Anonymousreply 119October 20, 2019 6:09 AM

Brady's.....

by Anonymousreply 120October 20, 2019 6:17 AM

R79, that’s not a painting made for the movie. It’s Two Women by Egon Schiele. He seems to have had a bit of thing for body hair, including his own. He was a skinny, scary-looking fellow, or anyway he saw himself as such.

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by Anonymousreply 121October 20, 2019 7:10 AM

R121 Actually, it was made for the film. It was painted by Rich Pellegrino.

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by Anonymousreply 122October 20, 2019 3:02 PM

Hannibal Lecter’s drawings of Clarice Starling.

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by Anonymousreply 123October 20, 2019 4:38 PM

Young "Helen Lawson" in "Valley of the Dolls."

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by Anonymousreply 124October 20, 2019 6:01 PM

television movie 'Man in an Orange Shirt'

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by Anonymousreply 125October 21, 2019 9:36 AM
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