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Auction History Result 9r139 ANTHONY QUINN signed 8x10 still '59 standing with Henry Fonda from Warlock! Date Sold 3/6/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Autographed 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (or was it Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn?) in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1915. His father was a mix of Irish and Mexican ancestry, and his mother descended from Aztec Indians. When he was a boy, his family moved first to El Paso and then to Los Angeles. He left high school before graduating, and did some professional boxing, and managed to get a job with famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but soon found acting, first on the stage. He was signed to a contract by Paramount, but they were only interested in putting him in "ethnic" roles, usually as villains, and often as Native Americans. One of his few non-ethnic early roles was as "Murray Burns", the guy who steals Ann Sheridan from James Cagney in City For Conquest (and also in the cast was then-actor Elia Kazan). By 1947, he had made 50 movie appearances, but none were very memorable, and he grew discouraged, and moved to New York, where he did some TV, and Broadway plays (including playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire for Elia Kazan, replacing Marlon Brando, who left the part to go to Hollywood). In 1952, when Elia Kazan prepared to direct Marlon Brando (now a major star) in Viva Zapata, he cast Quinn as Zapata's brother, likely partly to give more Mexican authenticity to the movie. Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, which led to some somewhat better roles, but Quinn felt his career would soon be back where it was, and he moved to Italy, where he had a major hit starring in Fellini's La Strada. Over the next decade, he alternated between Italian and Hollywood movies, winning a second Oscar playing painter Paul Gauguin in Lust For Life (although he only appeared in the movie for 8 minutes!), and being nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role in Wild Is The Wind. He continued to take more supporting roles as well as starring ones, and he had important roles in The Guns of Navarone and Lawrence of Arabia. In 1964, when it looked like his career was winding down, he got the title role in Alexis Zorbas (a U.S./English/Greek movie better known as Zorba the Greek), and he (and the movie) were huge international hits, but Quinn lost the Best Actor Oscar to Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. Quinn aged well, and continued acting regularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including playing several Mafia characters during the slew of movies spawned by the success of The Godfather. In 1983, he played Zorba in a Broadway revival. He continued some acting all the way until he passed away in 2001 at the age of 86. Quinn certainly had a "lust for life"! He was married three times (the first to Katherine DeMille, daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, who did not like Quinn, possibly because he was Mexican), and he fathered a total of 12 children (10 by his three wives, including five by DeMille). His last child was born in 1996, when Quinn was 81! Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by Anthony Quinn! About the Collection this Item Comes From Note that this item (and 36 others we are auctioning this week, each in its own auction) was consigned to us by a man who purchased the collection of a dedicated collector, who was a major film buff from the 1950s through the 1990s. He would purchase stills on stars he liked, and then he would go to events or collectibles shows (he went to virtually every collectibles show where stars appeared!), and he would get the items autographed, and many of his photos were personalized to him with nice inscriptions, because over time many of the celebrities who regularly attended shows came to be friends with him! Over many years he was able to acquire a large number of signed stills, and his collection was purchased by our consignor. In this set of auctions we are auctioning 37 of his autographed items (and we will auction others in future "all signed" auctions). We feel certain that the autographs on these items are authentic! Note that each of the 37 items from this consignor all have this paragraph on them. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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