The Thomas Crown Affair (United Artists) (1968)

PUBLICITY MATERIAL Still SM-24 Mat 2A Steve McQueen with part of the loot from a big bank heist. In “The Thomas Crown Affair,” he is cast as a millionaire who plans a multi-million dollar bank robbery. Starred with him in the Mirisch Corporation presentation is Faye Dunaway. The film, in Color by DeLuxe, will open eoweeeeeee at the Theatre, It is being released by United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation. Steve McQueen Wealthy Crook In The Thomas Crown Affair’ Title role in “The Thomas Crown Affair,’ Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production opening at the Theatre in Color by DeLuxe, is played by handsome Steve McQueen, with scintillating Faye Dunaway of “Bonnie and Clyde” fame as his leading or misleading lady, depending upon how one looks at it. New release by United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, deals with an eccentric millionaire played by McQueen who engineers bank robberies for kicks, with lovely Faye as the insurance investigator assigned to apprehend him. McQueen plays the title character in “The Thomas Crown Affair,” an improper Bostonian with a genius for conspiracy. As Thomas Crown he wears expensive clothes, drives a Rolls Royce, and maintains a dignified Beacon Hill mansion warmed on occasion by willing girls. He is a ladies’ man, connoisseur, patron of the arts, gourmet, polo player, sailplane pilot, empire builder, bon vivant— and sharpest of all the heisters who ever knocked over a Boston bank. His performance in “The Sand Pebbles” earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. “Nevada Smith” and “The Cincinnati Kid” are among his other recent hits. His future films include “The Man on a Nylon String” and “The Cold War Swap.” McQueen was born in Slater, Mo., and became an actor two years after his discharge from the Marine Corps in 1950. He went to Hollywood in 1958 and soon hit television stardom. Since 1961 however, he has appeared exclusively in pictures, Famed Composer Music for the Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production “The Thomas Crown Affair” starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway and OWENIND: Ci aee eres. cane ee) Seat Atte’ « 3cis ae aaianie teen Gael sc 8 ry Theatre under release by United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, is by Michel Legrand, famous for the music for “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.” Film is in Color by DeLuxe and co-stars Paul Burke and Jack Weston. Jewison directed. Innovator Jewison Brings New Device To Latest Film An innovator and producer of sure-fire hits is Canadian-born Norman Jewison, whose latest, the Mirisch Corporation Presentation “The Thomas Crown Affair,” comes to the Theatre on = in Color by DeLuxe and under th egis of United Artists, a Transamerica, Corporation. The new film, which stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, sensational as the green-eyed, machinegunning Bonnie of “Bonnie and Clyde,” is his first since his Academy Award winning “In The Heat of the Night.” Being an innovator, Jewison is trying something new in theatrical motion pictures with “The Thomas Crown Affair.” This is the multipleimage technique, used for the first time in the short “Room To Stand” which was a major sensation of Expo 67. It is estimated that as many as 17,000,000 were fascinated by the technique at the exposition, an uncounted number of them taking it in for the second and third time. It is a means of showing two separate bits of action at the same time on the same screen. The new film is also unique in that its script was written by a man who never wrote a movie before. He’s Alan R. Trustman, a prominent Boston attorney and it concerns a multi-millionaire who plans bank robberies for kicks. It was literally snatched up by Jewison who read it on a plane flight from Boston to the coast. Previous to his Hollywood commitments, Jewison produced eight Judy Garland shows and specials. Upon his graduation from the University of Toronto he entered Canadian television as a producer and from this went to CBS in New York in a similar capacity. Jewison directed “The Thomas Crown Affair” as well as producing it and the new film’s music is by Michel Legrand of “Umbrellas of Cherbourg” fame. ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ Shows Millionaire's Bank Heist (Advance Production Story) “The Thomas Crown Affair” is about a big Boston bank heist, the millionaire who masterminded it, and the girl who tracks him down. It also is a deft jab at the American Establish ment and society as a whole. Appearances are deceiving in the Mirisch Corporation pre sentation, a Norman Jewison Production starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke and Jack Weston. McQueen plays Thomas Crown: rich, super-cool, and a secret rebel who robs banks for kicks. Miss Dunaway is a sexy insurance investigator named Vicky Anderson, who acts like a swinger but is strictly a Dudley D-Right at heart. Paul Burke plays Eddy Malone, a baffled detective, and Jack Weston is seen as Erwin Weaver, a cosmetics salesman leading a double life. Norman Jewison produced and directed the picture, released by United Artists, an entertainment subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. It was filmed in widescreencolor from a screenplay by Alan R. Faye Dunaway Rated As One of Today’s Top Movie Stars She has been in only five pictures to date. But there’s no question that dazzling, green-eyed Faye Dunaway stands today among the top half-dozen or so of screendom’s reigning queens, Her latest and fifth picture—and, some say her most exacting role so far, is the Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production “The Thomas Crown Affair,’ which United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, is bringing to the ..... Theatre on...... in Color by DeLuxe. It is also her first since she skyrocketed into fame as the enigmatic poetry-writing gun-toting, Bonnie of “Bonnie and Clyde.” But Faye Dunaway is no nineday wonder. A long, hard and exacting period of preparation preceded her break-through and during it she had also achieved a fame on the New York stage. Daughter of an army career man, Faye was born in Bascom, Florida and educated in army schools in Texas, Arkansas, Utah and Germany. It was while attending the University of Florida that she was drawn to dramatics and this took her to Florida State and Boston University of Fine and Applied Arts. She turned down a Fulbright Scholarship to accept a role in the New York production of “A Man For All Seasons” under the egis of Elia Kazan and her triumph in the role was followed by parts in Kazan’s “After The Fall.” From this she went on to additional triumphs in “But For Whom Charlie,” “Tartuffe” and “Hogan’s Goat.” Then she was seen by movie impressario Sam Spiegel and into the cast of “The Happening” she went. This was followed by “Hurry Sundown” and from it she went to the now-historic “Bonnie and Clyde” with results known by everyone. Miss Dunaway stars in “The Thomas Crown Affair,” a romantic melodrama concerning a multi-millionaire who holds up banks for kicks, with Steve McQueen and with co-starring support from Paul Burke and Jack Weston. Where her business was holding up banks in “Bonnie and Clyde,” it is her business in “The Thomas Crown Affair” to run the miscreant—played~ by McQueen—to earth and this she accomplishes not without considerable romantic involvement. Composer Michel Legrand, who wrote the music for “The Thomas Crown Affair,” received an Academy Award nomination for his music in “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.” Jewison directed the new film which is from an original story by Alan R. Trustman. the Theatre. The film is the first commercially released motion picture to use the multiple image effect first seen at Expo 67 in a short called “A Place to Stand,” where 17,000,000 visitors saw and were impressed with the process Haskell Wexler, director of photography, received an Academy Award for his camera work on “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” He also photographed Norman Jewison’s “In the Heat of the Night,” starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, which won Academy Awards as “Best Picture.” and “Best Actor” for Rod Steiger. eeeeeesee Screen Debut Astrid Heeren, one of the most photographed models in the world, makes her screen debut in the Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production “The Thomas Crown Affair,” open1 A oe oe Se SAC CRN CO at Theatre in Color by DeLuxe and under release by United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation. Born in West Germany where she became famed as a model mostly because of her striking blonde loveliness, Miss Heeren transferred her activities to New York recently where she continued her work as a model until she was seen by a film talent scout. She plays in support of Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the new film, New Film Stars Noted Negro Actor Yaphet Kotto, Negro actor who proved the sensation of the New York-produced “The Zulu and the Zayda,” plays a strong supporting role in the Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production “The Thomas Crown Affair” which United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, is bringOD EE. ga 21a en ee RUGMUS ON cho ce tee ad in Color by DeLuxe. Kotto has been seen in the television shows “Death Valley Days,” “Tarzan” and “Cowboy in Africa” and made his film debut in “Nothing But a Man.” He plays in support of Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the new film offering which was directed by Jewison from an Alan R. Trustman story with music by Michel Legrand. Still SM-56 Faye Dunaway, the Bonnie of “Bonnie and Clyde,” is on the right side of the law in her newest film role. She stars with Steve McQueen in “The Thomas Crown Affair,” which will open SELES aes as Theatre. The film, in Color by DeLuxe, is a Mirisch Corporation presentation. It is being released by United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation. Mat 1A ee ee ee TV’s Jack Weston In ‘Crown Affair’ Two-hundred-and-twenty pounder Jack Weston, famed on TV, plays a strong supporting co-star role in the Mirisch Corporation Presentation and Norman Jewison Production “The Thomas Crown Affair,” which United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, is bringing to 11 te, Serna LE Sr WRn ELS. tS eet. ca phe OTN Rs ae eee aot, Sle CNC Color by DeLuxe. Weston appears in support of Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in the top roles. Weston was born in Cleveland and turned to acting to help support his widowed mother and younger brother. He played in Broadway's “South Pacific,” and “Bells Are Ringing,” and entered pictures with the Doris Day starrer “Please Don’t Eat The Daisies.” Not a Brief— A Script! Boston lawyer Alan R. Trustman wrote a story. It was the first he ever tried. He got an agent who showed it to film Producer-Director Norman Jewison. Jewison said he’d read it on the plane to Frisco, When he got there he cabled the agents immediately that he would buy the story. It comes to the local screen of the.......... dhestre: wert in. ieee c.'s as the Mirisch Corporation presention “The Thomas Crown Affair.” It stars Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway of “Bonnie and Clyde” fame; it’s in Color by DeLuxe and United Artists, a Transamerica Corporation, is releasing it. Still SM-49 Mat 2B Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, the Bonnie of “Bonnie and Clyde,” are the stars of ““The Thomas Crown Affair,” an exciling film about a big bank heist. The Mirisch Corporation presentation in Color by DeLuxe will open 6 .8.\6.0 Fe. siete ALLEN ES So ons: Theatre. It is being released through United Artists, an entertainment subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. € Lift For More Advertising And Exploitation Material PAGE 9