A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection
A Life & Legacy: The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection
"The Color of Money" | Bound presentation album with film script "as was shot"
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The Color of Money
Bound presentation album with film script "as was shot"
1986
Collection of film production stills, presented in bound album (9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.; 243 x 260 mm). Title-page and "credits" page, approximately 75 vintage black and white and 3 color photos mounted on leaves, inscribed and signed by director Martin Scorsese on blank preceding the title-page : “Oct. 17, 1986 | For Paul – Thanks for “The Color of Money” – I hope that it’s just one of many together – Marty Scorsese.” Bound in full green leather, cover and spine gilt-lettered, with "Paul Newman" gilt-lettered at lower right. In custom slipcase. [With:] Film script (8 1/2 x 11 in.; 215 x 280 mm). Approximately 135pp with three-hole punch, "SCRIPT AS IT WAS SHOT" on title-page. bound at left margin with brass fastenings; one or two minor creases.
"Fast" Eddie Felson: Do you smell that?
Vincent Lauria: What, smoke?
Carmen: No, Money...
Screenplay for The Color of Money, written by Richard Prince, and directed by Martin Scorsese, along with a presentation photo album warmly inscribed to Newman by Scorsese
The Color of Money cast a young Tom Cruise as Vincent Lauria, alongside Paul Newman, who was reprising his Fast Eddie character from The Hustler (1961). While the Hustler was directed by Robert Rossen, The Color of Money was helmed by Martin Scorsese, one of cinema’s most legendary director’s. The result was a tremendous critical and financial success, and a late classic for Newman. In fact, Newman's reprisal of the role of Fast Eddie earned him an Oscar for Best Actor.
Interestingly, just as The Hustler was responsible for increased demand for pool tables decades earlier, the release of The Color of Money is also linked to a spike in sales. The film was also delivered on time and under budget, an unusual circumstance for Scorsese.