SUPERMAN II MOVIE CAST - COLLECTION WITH ILYA SALKIND - HFSID 278465

SUPERMAN II: PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
This unique piece of movie history is a framed People Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture awarded to Superman II. It belonged to Ilya Salkind, producer of the first three Superman movies of the 1970s and 1980s, and is accompanied by a typed letter of authentication signed by Salkind.
Superman II collection. Two items: 1) Unsigned printed certificate. 1 page, 7x10, framed to 8x11. In full: "The People's Choice Awards congratulates 'Superman II' Voted by the American public in a special Gallup poll - one of the three top in the category Favorite Motion Picture, presented March 18, 1982," People's Choice Award logo printed in lower right. Not framed in Gallery of History Style. Slightly soiled. Fine condition. 2) Typed letter signed:"Ilya Salkind", 1 page, 8½x11. May 8, 2008. On personal letterhead to Todd Axelrod, Gallery of History, Las Vegas, Nevada. In full: "Dear Todd: This is a letter of authenticity stating that I, Ilya Salkind: Originator and Executive Producer of Superman The Movie, confirm that the Superman II People's Choice Award for Favorite Motion Picture belonged to my private archives and I have now sold it to Todd Axelrod. Regards". Mailing fold crosses signature. Otherwise, fine condition. Superman II (1978), generally considered the best of the Christopher Reeve Superman films, had the man of steel marrying Lois Lane and, stripped of his super powers, fighting super villains from his home planet of Krypton. Ilya Salkind, a third generation movie producer, teamed with his father Alexander Salkind (1921-1997) on several films, including the Superman series. (The older Salkind, who feared flying, lived in Paris and never came to Hollywood.) The Salkinds fought a court battle with cast members of their production The Three Musketeers (1973) when they took unused footage from that film to make The Four Musketeers two years later. The court verdict led to the so-called "Salkind clause": a clause in an Actors Guild contract specifying that the actor's services are for one film only. In 2003 he launched The Ilya Salkind Company, which now has several films in the pipeline, beginning with a scheduled release of Young Alexander the Great in 2008.