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I just heard about this publicity stunt for the incredible film of Richard Fleischer “Fantastic Voyage:.<\/p>\n
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They say it was Fleischer’s idea to get Salvador Dali to paint a portraait of Raquel Welch wearing a bikini in the window of the National cash Register Building in New York City. The story goes that Dali just splashed some paint onto a canvas and declared it done! Raquel may have been put out a bit by the results.<\/p>\n
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I then learned that Albert and David Maysles had been commissioned to make a film about the event, which they did. It’s called “Dali’s Fantastic Dream”. It’s not available anywhere but I would love to see it.<\/p>\n
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Dali from the Maysle Brothers film “Dali’s Fantastic Dream”<\/em><\/p>\n When I was working in NYC I rented editing rooms at the Maysle Brothers Facility on the top floor of a building on Maybe 54th street? I’ll have to look it up.<\/p>\n I also edited a film that Raquel Welch’s last husband Richie Palmer had a small uncredited role in “Hugo Pool”. He was married to Cathy Moriarity at the time and she is one of the stars of the film. Anyway I love crazy Film Publicity Stunts and this is a good one!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just heard about this publicity stunt for the incredible film of Richard Fleischer “Fantastic Voyage:. They say it was Fleischer’s idea to get Salvador Dali to paint a portraait of Raquel Welch wearing a bikini in the window of the National cash Register Building in New York City. The story goes that Dali just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.filmforno.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/filmforno.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dali1.jpg\")
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