Playlist for Pauline Boty updated

The Spotify Playlist for Pauline Boty and its info page on the website have both had an update. The 32 tracks last just under two hours and as before are organised into three main sections representing their relevance in different ways – as titles or subjects of Boty’s works, as soundtracks to her appearances in TV, film and on radio, and to the collaged walls she created,

The playlist has had these songs added:

Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan Boty collected the musician from the airport in December 1962 on his first visit to the UK and escorted him around London prior to his appearance in the BBC Sunday Night Play The Madhouse on Castle Street where he performed the song

She Loves You by The Beatles The 1964 painting It’s a Man’s World I includes Ringo Starr and John Lennon. Boty also had The Beatles as guests on The Public Ear, the fortnightly BBC radio programme she hosted from 1963–64, and told best friend Natalie Gibson how much she loved the band, particularly John Lennon. The photo she used in the work was taken at Arlanda International Airport in Sweden on 23 October 1963, She Loves You having been released in the UK on 23 August 1963

The Nursery Blues by The Shake Keane Fivetet This was the theme tune to the aforementioned radio programme The Public Ear co-presented by Boty

The website’s info page for the playlist has now been more clearly divided into the different sections as well as having details on when and where the tracks for Boty appear in Pop Goes the Easel added. Also now listed (but not included on the playlist) are the songs accompanying Peter Blake, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier in the same documentary.

Please click here to go to the playlist info page and its link to Spotify [link]

Playlist for Pauline Boty added to website

A new Spotify playlist of music relating to Boty is now available. The tracks are organised into sections representing their relevance – as titles or subjects of the works, as soundtracks to her onscreen appearances on TV and film, to her appearances on Ready Steady Go! and to the collaged wall she created in her flat in west London.

Please click here to go to the playlist and see details behind the track selection [link]

70 contact sheets from “Alfie” for sale, including scene with Michael Caine and Pauline Boty

Michael Caine and Pauline Boty in the 1966 film “Alfie”, contact sheet on sale at eBay [detail]

In Boty’s first and sadly, only, film role she appeared briefly as the manageress of a dry cleaners where she and Michael Caine’s Alfie share an embrace as they disappear behind racks of clothes – “And I was getting a suit clean in the bargain. Well. You can’t turn sometime like that down!” The images show Boty and Caine both in their roles inside and in conversation outside, presumably with director Lewis Gilbert on Earl’s Court Road where the building was located.
In addition to Caine, the film starred Millicent Martin, Julia Foster, Jane Asher, Shirley Anne Field, Vivien Merchant, Eleanor Bron and Shelley Winters and had its premiere at the Plaza Theatre in London on 24 March 1966.
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The contact sheets are currently available for sale on eBay – the listing’s description includes the following:
“Alfie (1966). A unique important collection of 70 original silver gelatin contact sheets.
Provenance: from the collection of the director and producer of the movie; Lewis Gilbert.
A total of 70 contact sheets containing a complete sequence of images from ‘ALF 1’ through to ‘ALF 1,481’. The BFI (British Film Institute) has around 300 stills from the movie in their archive – here there are 1,481 across the 70 contact sheets. Essentially a museum/exhibition piece with the ultimate provenance.
Alfie is the seminal ‘Swinging Sixties London’ movie that turned Michael Caine into a movie superstar and global icon, and likewise the breakthrough movie for Lewis Gilbert who went on to direct three James Bond movies and later worked again with Caine on Educating Rita.
The images are a mix of frames from the movie, outtakes and photography stills, on set scenes, off set, production team, movie promos etc, probably many never seen before..

In very good condition, some with very slight imperfections from gentle handling. Probably never removed since 1966 from their original album sleeves until now for listing photography.

Absolutely unique and rare with second to none provenance.”

More images of the sheets uploaded to Instagram can be seen by searching the hashtag #alfiecontactsheets

The eBay listing can be seen here: [link]