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U.K. Lobby Cards (post 3 of 3)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailFinally we get a couple photos with Robin front and center and facing the camera. The first is as Nicky is dragged from the WJAD studio screaming for Pammy. In the film, we see this entirely looking down from Johnny’s control room. That’s the leg of George Morfogen on the left, playing station manager Don…
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U.K. Lobby Cards (post 2 of 3)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail This shot of Nicky joining in as Pammy dances at the Cleo Club appears to me to have been taken within seconds of TS-104-17A/7 from the US Press Materials folder, and this color 8×10, the purpose of which I still don’t know. (Its post is here.) Although the presence of Miguel Pinero and…
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U.K. Lobby Cards (post 1 of 3)
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailThere were no lobby cards for Times Square in the US, only 8″ x 10″ black and white stills. The rest of the world was more fortunate. At least eight lobby cards were released to theaters in the UK (although I suspect there was at least one more). Some of the photos hadn’t previously been…
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Times Square U.K. Quad Poster
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailA standard one-sheet movie poster is 40 inches high by 27 inches wide. A “quad” poster, which I don’t think they make anymore, is 40 inches wide by 30 inches high. EMI took this extra space and zoomed in on the top two-thirds of the painting, cutting it off just above the artist’s signature. Overall…
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Times Square U.K. Movie Poster
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailAfter all the work that went into creating the logo on the cover of the UK Press Kit, and the poster-worthy image that had been used to promote the movie’s production in the 21-28 June, 1980 Screen International, EMI went with this image for the UK movie poster. The painting of a frightfully gaunt Nicky,…
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“Nick & Slick”
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmailTwo UK black and white press photos on a single 8 x 10 print. Who exactly printed these, and why, are mysteries, as I haven’t yet come across any publication that used them, but their country of origin is made clear by the captions announcing Times Square’s release in the UK. A bigger mystery is…
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TS-69-34A/4, ITC version
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Another UK press photo produced by ITC, this one a cropped version of TS-69-34A/4 from the US Press Materials folder, with its caption added on at an annoyingly noticeable angle. The last one had a 4 on it; this one is not numbered. There may be two or three more of these ITC photos…
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Headshot, ITC version
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail Associated Film Distribution, which released Times Square in the US, was a partnership between Thorn-EMI (which released Times Square in the UK and most of the rest of the world), and ITC, which was primarily a producer of television in the UK. By the time Times Square came out, AFD was already struggling from…
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Playboy, Vol. 28 No. 1, January 1981
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail“The raggle-taggle queen of the night is Robin…” Bruce Williamson didn’t not like Times Square, but he couldn’t ignore its flaws… still, his review in the January Playboy was generally positive, appreciating the film’s visual evocation of Times Square and, like most other reviewers, Robin’s performance. The two bunny-heads meant the movie was “worth a…
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Nicky Marotta, 1980
FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail And this, of course, is the look they settled on for Nicky, ultimately using this photo on nearly all the American publicity materials. As this is the outfit she wears when the girls escape from the hospital, it was likely taken near the end of production, so the shaggy hair cut of someone who…