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The Stepford Wives

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@ Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Research in ProgressOn deep blue background, fading towards center: a yellow surface with broken-off hand and head of an attractive, stylish woman.Inscriptions: top-center in yellow, the title “The Stepford Wives", followed below at left, in white, with: "Something strange is happening / in the town of Stepford. / When the men spend their nights doing something secret, / And every woman acts like every man's dream of the / "perfect" wife. / When a young woman watches the / dream become a nightmare / And sees the nightmare engulf her best friends, / And realizes that any moment, any second-- / her turn is coming. ", and at right in yellow: "KATHERINE ROSS PAULA PRENTISS / NANETTE NEWMAN / PATRICK O'NEAL". At mid left, in yellow: "CONTEMPORARY / FILMS / RELEASE", and at mid-right: "DIRECTED BY / BRYAN FORBES." Followed by a black band at bottom, with inscription in yellow "SCREENPLAY BY WILLIAM GOLDMAN FROM THE NOVEL BY IRA LEVIN AUTHOR OF 'ROSEMARY'S BABY' & 'BOYS FROM BRAZIL'.
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Image
Format:
Screenprint
Rights:
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda
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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Smithsonian Institution