promotion – Page 4 – Robin Johnson

“… a culture of ‘Rag-Dolls’…” 1981 Press Kit, Denmark

4 January, 2018 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This was sold to me as a Press Kit, but it looks to me more like the AFD Campaign Pressbook in intent, as it has a list of available promotional materials on the back. Theater owners might have a use for that, the press wouldn’t. The Danish publicity for Times

Time Out No. 567, February 25, 1981

14 August, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“Of course Robert [Stigwood] wants to make money. Money is the bottom line. But I don’t think he is using me for that prime reason … I hope not, God.” Robin made the cover of London’s Time Out, sort of, to illustrate their cover story, an in-depth analysis of

TIMES SQUARE IS MUSIC OF THE STREETS

23 July, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

WHAT: A yellow-orange, red, and black sticker, 2¼ inches in diameter, with text reading “Times Square is music of the streets.” WHERE: Australia. The tag line on the Australian posters was “Times Square is the music of the streets.” The sticker omits the first “the.” Also, where the phrase

Robin steppin’ out in London, January 1981

29 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

Robin doesn’t remember exactly where this photo was taken, but it was during her publicity tour of the UK for Times Square, and probably in London. She also doesn’t think much of it as a photograph, but I think there’s something enchanting and 1940s-glamorous about it. It was

Screen International No. 276, January 24-31, 1981

18 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

The number one film in mid-January 1981 London was, unsurprisingly, Flash Gordon, which had already been open for six weeks to Times Square’s one. Times Square debuted at number seven and was falling fast, but its “tepid” performance hadn’t yet doomed it to closure when this issue of

Times Square Press Synopsis and Credits

7 May, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This was sold as a “Press Kit,” but it’s just the one sheet of A4-size paper with a very complete synopsis of the film on one side and the full cast and credits on the other. It was definitely used for publicity purposes in the UK, but the logo on

TIMES SQUARE soundtrack album promotional mirror

Record Mirror, 1980

4 April, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

No, not the magazine Record Mirror. This was a promotional item given by an RSO music rep to the music director of WLKI in Angola, Indiana, along with 25 copies of the soundtrack album to give away as contest prizes. It was on display as part of his enormous

“6”

24 March, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

This, I believe, is one of the photos missing from my copy of the UK Press Kit. The photo caption sheet in the press kit lists photos 6, 7, and 8 as pictures of Robin all with the same caption, and my copy only has a 7 and

TS-C-22/27

17 January, 2017 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

I’m going to have to temporarily abandon my mostly chronological posting order, because I’ve recently obtained a few items that If I’d had them previously, they’d have already gone up. Although, in all honesty, I don’t know where this would go. It’s a publicity still from AFD, in the fashion

Film Review, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 1981

27 December, 2016 Sean 0 Comments 1 category

“With an off-beat beauty all her own, and an engaging rasping singing voice, Ms Johnson has enough female virility to fill many films yet, and is already pencilled in for the sequel to Grease.” There’s no arguing with the fact that in January of 1981, the big movie in

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