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Jill Clayburgh was born in New York City in 1944. She was the daughter of an upper class Jewish family, and she went to the prestigious Brearley School and Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided to be an actress. She joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston and there she met Al Pacino (who had come up from New York for a season), and they would live together from 1970 to 1975. She went back to New York with Pacino, and acted on Broadway. She started doing some movies, and had a significant role in Portnoy's Complaint in 1972, and was the female lead in the 1976 bomb, Gable and Lombard (opposite James Brolin), but that same year she had a large role in the comedy hit, Silver Streak, and the next year she was the female lead in the extremely funny Semi-Tough. But it was in 1978 that she had her breakout role, which was playing the lead in An Unmarried Woman (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). The following year she married playwright David Rabe, and she made the disastrous choice of starring in La Luna, Bernardo Bertolucci's much reviled movie, where Clayburgh's character has an incestuous scene with her son. That same year she was a lead in Starting Over (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), with Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen, and I consider the movie an overlooked gem! But her other film choices were not very good, and she made fewer of them, eventually doing a movie every four years or so. In recent years she has done some TV and Broadway. In many ways Clayburgh's career has mirrored that of Al Pacino, her longtime early boyfriend. It took her a long time to get noticed, and then she had some excellent performances, mixed with several lesser ones, and then her career went into a long decline. But unlike Pacino, she never had a major career resurgence, which may simply reflect how few top roles there are a woman in her forties and fifties! Sadly, she passed away in 2010 at the age of 66.

Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by Jill Clayburgh! Also note that this still measures 8" x 9 1/2" [20 x 24 cm], but it has not been trimmed.

Note that this autographed item is part of a remarkable collection. In our last two all-signed auctions, we auctioned hundreds of items from this collection and now we are auctioning 213 more items (plus signed index cards that have a different note on those)!
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a teacher who taught a film class, and he also part-time ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s through the late 1980s, he wrote to famous celebrities, and enclosed an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the late 1970s or 1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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