Description: George Nader & Esther Williams Signed 4 1/2 x 10 Magazine Page Movie Ad " The Unguarded Moment" 1956 !!! in very good condition with lobby card The Unguarded Moment (1956) is an enjoyably trashy but overwrought grade B melodrama that unintentionally accents Williams' limitations as a dramatic actress though she still looks gorgeous. The film, directed by Harry Keller, seesaws back and forth in trying to present Williams' as a sympathetic role model for the students while at the same time playing up her sexual appeal. There is an unconvincing romantic subplot - a slow, simmering courtship between Williams and the small town cop hero (George Nader) - but the most compelling aspect of the movie is the sick relationship between John Saxon (in his first major role) as the psychologically damaged football star and his controlling father, Mr. Bennett (Edward Andrews), who is responsible for his son's predatory behavior. Esther Williams' own recollections of the picture in her autobiography, The Million Dollar Mermaid, also express her ambivalence toward the role. "I thought it was a curious choice for Universal to offer me the lead in a "dry" psychological thriller, and I wasn't sure the public would accept me without my glittering crowns and sparkly swimsuits. Nonetheless, Universal offered me $200,000, which was more than I ever made for a single film at MGM in or out of the water...Later, after we had started shooting, Roz Russell came up to me at a party and said, "I hear you're doing my script." I looked at her blankly until she explained that she had written it under the pseudonym C. A. McKnight. "I wrote the part for me, but I got too old." Also listed Pola Negri SIGNED, Robert Montgomery SIGNED, Mae West SIGNED, Herb Ritts, Hurrell, Olivia de Havilland SIGNED, 1920s Hollywood Magazines, George Raft SIGNED, Rudolph Valentino, Brooke Shields & other Hollywood Items!! Thanks for looking and happy bidding Combine postage offered on all items
Price: 49 USD
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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