THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE 8×10 LOBBY CARD SUSANNAH YORK CORAL BROWNE 1968

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THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE ORIGINAL 8′ x 10′ LOBBY CARD SUSANNAH YORK CORAL BROWNE 1968.  See photo for condition.
Excerpted From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
Killing of Sister George
is a 1968 American black drama film
directed by Robert Aldrich and filmed at his Aldrich Studios in Los Angeles. It
is based on the 1964 play by British playwright Frank Marcus. In the film, an
aging lesbian television actress, June “George” Buckridge (Beryl Reid,
reprising her role from the stage play), simultaneously faces the loss of her
popular television role and the breakdown of her long-term relationship with a
younger woman (Susannah York). Although Marcus’s play was a black comedy,
the film version
was marketed as a “shocking drama”;
it added explicit lesbian content that was not
in the original play,
and was presented as a serious treatment of
lesbianism.
Between
the time
The Killing of Sister George
started filming and ended
production, the United States movie industry instituted the new MPAA film
rating system. Largely on the basis of the graphic sex scene between Alice and
Mrs. Croft,
The Killing of Sister George
received an X rating, which
limited its screening in US cinemas and ability to be advertised in mainstream
newspapers. Aldrich spent $75,000 battling the rating, but his lawsuit was
dismissed, and the film died at the box office.