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Re: Query: Portrait in Kubrick's "Lolita" (fwd)
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From: Barbara Wyllie <bwyllie@ssees.ac.uk>
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but wasn't the picture supposed to be
a joke reference to Gainsborough Pictures in London (the studios where
Hitchcock began his film career in 1923 and went on to make The Man Who Knew
Too Much, The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes) the portrait being
either the same or a very close replica of that used by the film company as
their signature motif (and, presumably, a Gainsborough)?
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES, UCL
Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but wasn't the picture supposed to be
a joke reference to Gainsborough Pictures in London (the studios where
Hitchcock began his film career in 1923 and went on to make The Man Who Knew
Too Much, The Thirty-Nine Steps and The Lady Vanishes) the portrait being
either the same or a very close replica of that used by the film company as
their signature motif (and, presumably, a Gainsborough)?
Barbara Wyllie
SSEES, UCL