Highly influential French director and film scholar who was one of the leading lights of the French ‘New Wave’ of the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best-known films are The 400 Blows (1959), Jules and Jim (1962), and Day for Night (1973). Art-house-phobic American audiences likely remember him best as the sympathetic scientist Lacombe in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Signed book: Hitchcock. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8.5 x 11, 256 pages. Signed and inscribed on the reverse of the second free end page by Truffaut, and also signed by Billy Curtis. The reverse of the first free end page and adjacent free end page are signed by an additional 34 actors and actresses. Signers are: Stanley Adams, John Anderson, Heather Angel, Malcolm Atterbury, Diane Baker, Henry Beckman, Edward Binns, James H. Brown (assistant director), Macdonald Carey, Lonny Chapman, Ellen Corby, Royal Dano, Larry Dobkin, Rhonda Fleming, John Gavin, Ned Glass, Leo Gordon, Mariette Hartley, Henry Jones, Doreen Lang, Louise Latham, Janet Leigh, Simon Oakland, David Opatoshu, Nehemiah Persoff, Judson Pratt, Ruth Roman, Bob Sweeney, Vaughn Taylor, Les Tremayne, Lurene Tuttle, Doodles Weaver, Dave Willock, and Ian Wolfe. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG+/VG+.
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