Who’s The Boss? (1984 - 1992) -Lot of Original PR material- Alyssa Milano et al.

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From the files of a journalist, deceased in 1996, who covered Hollywood periodically from 1932 as a foreign correspondent, exclusively from 1945 as Editor of the Hollywood Foreign Bureau of the United Press, and from 1969 as Hollywood correspondent for various periodicals in Europe. The sources of the multiple materials offered here were many and varied -- movie studios, TV networks, production companies, agencies, PR firms, his own photographers and sometimes himself -- and were used to illustrate his articles in the case of the pix and as background data in the case of the textual publicity material.
Having originally been auctioned off one individual piece at a time several years ago, these batches of multiple materials are now offered either as Lots or as lower priced individual items.
The following Lot of Original PR material from the WHO’S THE BOSS? (1984 - 1992) TV series starring TONY DANZA, JUDITH LIGHT, ALYSSA MILANO, DANNY PINTAURO and KATHERINE HELMOND is described in some detail below:
NOTE: Your friendly anal retentive photographer would like nothing better than to show you each and every pic/page, but eBay has limited the number of photographs to 12. By my count, the number of pix/pages for this item is 18, so by golly, we’ll just have to make do somehow.
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Some of the PR material is from COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, some from COLUMBIA PICTURES INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION (CPIT) and some from COLUMBIA PICTURES HOLDINGS. This is the kind of thing that makes roomfuls of lawyers giddy, but only tends to baffle and irritate the benign archivist. What is gone is any material from EMBASSY which dealt with the early years of WTB before COLUMBIA took charge. As to why the switchover happened, I have no idea.
1) One 8x10 black-and-white photograph of series stars
DANNY PINTAURO, TONY DANZA, ALYSSA
MILANO, KATHERINE HELMOND & JUDITH
LIGHT (Clockwise from L), caption w/IDs & copy-
right printed in lower border, dated 1989;
2) one 8x10 black-and-white photograph of two scenes
featuring TONY DANZA, caption w/IDs & copyright
printed in lower border, dated 1989;
3) one 8x10 black-and-white photograph of two scenes
featuring TONY DANZA & JUDITH LIGHT, caption
w/IDs & copyright printed in lower border, dated 1989;
4) one 8x10 black-and-white photograph of series stars
TONY DANZA, JUDITH LIGHT & KATHERINE
HELMOND, caption w/IDs & copyright printed in lower
border, dated 1989;
5) one 8-1/2x11 Promotional One-Sheet from COLUMBIA
PICTURES INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION,
printed on stiff glossy cardstock, double-sided,
dated 1988;
6) one 8-1/2x11 Typesetter’s Title Logo Sheet in diverse
font sizes, printed on glossy paper, undated;
7) one one-page CPIT Feature re upcoming 6th Season,
dated August 1989;
8) one one-page CPIT Credits for upcoming 6th Season,
dated August 1989;
9) one one-page CPIT Biography of TONY DANZA,
dated August 1989;
10) one one-page CPIT Biography of JUDITH LIGHT,
dated August 1989;
11) one two-page CPIT Bio of KATHERINE HELMOND,
dated August 1989;
12) one one-page CPIT Biography of ALYSSA MILANO,
dated August 1989;
13) one one-page CPIT Bio of DANNY PINTAURO,
dated August 1989;
14) one mounted 35mm color transparency of an int gallery
featuring, Clockwise from L: HELMOND, DANZA,
LIGHT, MILANO & PINTAURO, dated 1987;
15) one mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with,
from L to R: LIGHT & DANZA, dated 1987;
16) one mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with,
from L to R: MILANO & DANZA, dated 1987;
17) one mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with,
from L to R: LIGHT & DANZA, dated 1987.
Pic#1 shows the 8x10 black-and-white photograph of series stars DANNY PINTAURO, TONY DANZA, ALYSSA MILANO, KATHERINE HELMOND and JUDITH LIGHT (Clockwise from Left), caption with IDs and copyright are printed in the lower border, dated 1989; Pic#2 shows two 8x10 black-and-white photographs which are, from Top to Bottom: a) two scenes featuring TONY DANZA, and b) two scenes featuring TONY DANZA and JUDITH LIGHT, both with captions, IDs and copyrights printed in their respective lower borders and both dated 1989; Pic#3 shows the 8x10 black-and-white photograph of series stars TONY DANZA, JUDITH LIGHT and KATHERINE HELMOND, caption with IDs and copyright are printed in the lower border, dated 1989; Pic#4 shows the obverse of the 8-1/2x11 double-sided Promotional One-Sheet from COLUMBIA PICTURES INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION, printed on stiff glossy cardstock, dated 1988; Pic#5 shows the reverse of same; Pic#6 shows the 8-1/2x11 Typesetter’s Title Logo Sheet in diverse font sizes, printed on glossy paper, undated; Pic#7 shows four COLUMBIA PICTURES INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION Press Releases which are, from Top to Bottom: a) a one-page CPIT Feature re the upcoming 6th Season, b) a one-page CPIT Credits for the upcoming 6th Season, c) a one-page CPIT Biography of TONY DANZA, and d) a one-page CPIT Biography of JUDITH LIGHT, all dated August 1989; Pic#8 shows a further three CPIT Press Releases which are, from Top to Bottom: a) the first page of an unstapled two-page CPIT Biography of KATHERINE HELMOND, b) a one-page CPIT Biography of ALYSSA MILANO, and c) a one-page CPIT Biography of DANNY PINTAURO, all dated August 1989; Pic#9 shows the mounted 35mm color transparency of an interior gallery featuring, Clockwise from Left: KATHERINE HELMOND, TONY DANZA, JUDITH LIGHT, ALYSSA MILANO and DANNY PINTAURO, dated 1987; Pic#10 shows the mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with, from Left to Right: JUDITH LIGHT and TONY DANZA, dated 1987; Pic#11 shows the mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with, from Left to Right: ALYSSA MILANO and TONY DANZA, dated 1987; and Pic#12 shows the mounted 35mm color transparency of a scene with, from Left to Right: JUDITH LIGHT and TONY DANZA, dated 1987. Discoloration, if any, is due to oxidation of the paper (and yes, it even happens to photographic paper) from having been tightly pressed up against umpteen newsprint clippings and tearsheets of dubious origin in a manila file folder stuffed in an overloaded file cabinet over a period of some 50+ years.
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