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Frank Worth Art

American, 1923-1999
Frank Worth was born in New York City in 1923. During his senior year he approached the New York offices of the International News Service (INS) with some of his photos and was offered a trial position. His first assignment was to photograph actors and actresses as they arrived at Grand Central Station getting off the California Express train. This was his introduction to Hollywood. Frank was charming, witty and immediately struck up a rapport with those he was photographing. As a result, INS sent him to Hollywood as a staff photographer after he graduated in 1940. Frank Worth soon left INS and became a member of the Hollywood Photographers Guild, although he continued to work for INS as a freelancer. Frank quickly met and became close friends with many top stars, including James Dean, with whom he shared a fascination for sports cars. Frank was invited by Dean to go behind-the-scenes on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. Frank Worth was a regular at many other movie sets and film premieres including The Vikings, Reap the Wild Wind, Magnificent Obsession, How To Marry a Millionaire and The Seven Year Itch. Frank Worth also attended and photographed a number of Oscar and Golden Globe ceremonies and after-parties, candidly capturing the likes of the Marx Brothers, Errol Flynn, Rock Hudson, Sofia Loren and Judy Garland. When Frank Worth was on location in New York during the making of the Seven Year Itch director Billy Wilder posed Marilyn Monroe, her skirt blowing up, over an opening to the subway system. Frank shot the picture of Billy showing Marilyn how to pose. Many photographers were invited to take photos of the scene, but because Joe DiMaggio objected to Marilyn’s panties being seen, she concealed them during this photo shoot. Frank Worth had the only ‘panty’ photo known in existence with Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe. He released that photograph only once, for the front page of the Hollywood Reporter for an issue dedicated to Billy Wilder. Frank Worth never released his best photos. Some of his shots were to him as private as his personal life. He only admitted to his affair with Monroe just months before his death. The remarkable rare and highly valuable collection of negatives that were accumulated over a period of 60 years was found by his estate in Worth’s home after his passing in 1999. The negatives reveal a diverse, previously unseen catalog of Frank Worth’s Hollywood friends, acquaintances and sports stars, representing an array of the famous stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. It is hard to overstate the importance of this discovery; “The most extraordinary collection and find of its kind in the last 50 years,” according to a statement made by Christie’s of London in 2002, a leading art auction house in the UK and the USA.
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Artist: Frank Worth
Returnable Items Only
Marilyn Monroe Throws the First Pitch - Limited Edition Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Monroe Throws the First Pitch 1958 Frank Worth Marilyn Monroe with Ralph Edwards on a baseball diamond, throwing the first pitch to start a game in 1958. Marilyn Monroe was an Am...
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1950s Modern Frank Worth Art

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Archival Pigment

James Dean Behind Fence in Giant - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean Behind Fence in Giant 1955 by Frank Worth James Dean in thought seated behind a barbed wire fence for his role in the film 'Giant', 1955. James Byron Dean was an Ameri...
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1950s Modern Frank Worth Art

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Archival Pigment

Marilyn Monroe Throws the First Pitch - Giant Oversize Limited Edition Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
Monroe Throws the First Pitch 1958 Frank Worth Marilyn Monroe with Ralph Edwards on a baseball diamond, throwing the first pitch to start a game in 1958. Marilyn Monroe was an Am...
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1950s Modern Frank Worth Art

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Archival Pigment

Humphrey Bogart on set of "Battle Circus", Lithograph by Frank Worth
By Frank Worth
Located in Long Island City, NY
A modern lithograph of a photograph by Frank Worth. Produced by the Worth Estate (stamp verso). Image Size: 10.5 x 11 inches Paper Size: 17.75 x 12 inches
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1950s American Modern Frank Worth Art

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Lithograph

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