Miss Movie Girl Mary Tilson with Frank Sanquest

Miss Movie Girl Mary Tilson with Frank Sanquest

Cork Film Festival, Frank Sanquest, Miss Movie Girl, Mary Tilson, Brian Coomber

This is a black and white photo of Mary Tilson, Frank Sanquest, and Brian Coomber at a press conference. Mary Tilson, in a dark-coloured top and Movie Girl sash, was Miss Movie Girl in 1975. Miss Movie Girl was a ‘Rose of Tralee’ type contest that ran for a few brief years in the seventies. Run in conjunction with the Sunday World tabloid, it was a contest of county representatives vying for the ultimate title of 'Miss Movie Girl’. It was an enticing affair, the winner would meet with celebrities, be showered with prizes and go on to promote the festival throughout Ireland.

In this picture Tilson is talking to the artist and journalist Frank Sanquest. Sanquest was a Cork-born artist who specialised in portraiture and landscapes. He was a past president of the Munster Fine Art Society and for many years was resident set designer for the Cork Opera House until it burnt down in 1954. Sanquest was on the board of the Southern Theatre Group with Dan Donovan and James N. Healy which toured with John B Keane plays often with the Cork actor Michael Twomey. From 1940 to 1987 he also worked as the Arts Editor for The Cork Examiner, in whose capacity he might have been attending the Film Festival press briefings. He died in 2008, age 95.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Bateman Photography

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1975

Bateman Photography

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TIFF
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English, eng

1975
Cork, Ireland

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245 x 195mm