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Lot description
A sculpture, replicating the statue that is featured in the film Boy on a Dolphin (20th Century Fox, 1957), presented to the film’s director, Jean Negulesco. In the film, which marked Sophia Loren’s American film debut, she stars as a Greek sponge diver who discovers an ancient statue of a boy riding a dolphin. The brass sculpture depicts a boy riding a dolphin raised on a rectangular white-veined black marble base. The front of the base with an applied brass plaque bearing a presentation inscription "For your help and enthusiasm and for / your understanding of our project 'Boy on a Dolphin' company / 20th Century Fox Studio / Fall of 1956." Together with a scrapbook inscribed in ink "For Jean Negulesco, the director / Domo Arigato Gozaimashita (translation: thank you very much) / Lovyss Bradley." Bradley was a veteran actress, who appeared in numerous films and television series. Also together with a script for Memed, My Hawk, an unrealized film adaptation of Yesar Kemal's 1955 novel. The 143-page screenplay is dated October 1967 and the cover page reads in part "Jean Negulesco / 'TIGA' Productions / Beverly Hills, California." Jean Negulesco directed many notable films, including How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century Fox, 1953) and The Best of Everything (20th Century Fox, 1959).