ROBERT B. ALTMAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 292542

ROBERT ALTMAN
The 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Oscar signs a black and white publicity photograph for his 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Photograph signed: "R B Altman" in black felt tip. B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9½x7 (one surface). Altman adapted an Edmund Naughton novel into a screenplay for McCabe & Mrs. Miller, he also directed the film, which starred Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. Robert Bernard Altman (1925-2006) was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for M*A*S*H (1970), Nashville (1975), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993) and Grosford Park (2001) before being awarded a Lifetime Achievement Oscar in 2006. The director, producer, screenwriter and editor also won the Golden Globe for Best Director for Grosford Park, and he was nominated for Best Director Golden Globes for M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player and for the Best Screenplay Golden Globe for Short Cuts. Altman, who made his directing debut in 1951 (Modern Football), was known for his large, ensemble casts, whom he encouraged to improvise, and for overlapping dialogue, which sometime seemed to be coming from a distant source. His other features include McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Popeye (1980), Dr T and the Women (2000) and A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Altman also directed a long list of TV episodes and series, beginning with Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) and Peter Gunn (1958). Ink and pencil note (unknown hand) on verso (no show through). Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.