Richard Fontaine: Days Of Greek Gods

Bob Mizer writes in his Physique Pictorial and film catalogs...

Dick Fontaine of Richard Anthony Enterprises ( and formally Apollo, then Zenith) was doing physique films even before AMG (and was a friend of the family when he was a pre-teenager). He has now given up all physique work in favor of doing major general release movies, and he has put all of his 8 & 16mm physique film negatives in our care.

Dick Fontaine was legendary in Hollywood as a male physique photographer. He began his career in 1949, 4 years after Bob Mizer started Athletic Model Guild. His first film was "Always Obtainable" with dancer Guy Mayor. Mayor approached him to make a special "audition film", but whether the film was beneficial to his career, nobody knows. But this first film marked Fontaine's entry into the realm of physique photography and filmmaking.

In 1954, he created the first physique film with sound, "Days of Greek Gods", starring physique stars Bob Delmonteque, Artie Zeller, and Johnny Apollo, all who were well known on the sands of Muscle beach California. Fontaine continued collaborating with Bob Mizer of AMG, and shot most of his film work at the Athletic Model Guild compound throughout the 1950s and 60s.

When he began his mainstream movie career in the 1970s, he turned over all his physique work to AMG, where Mizer continued to sell film prints until his death in 1992. We continue the tradition and have remastered these early film negatives, to bring the work of Richard Fontaine to new audiences once more.

Synopsis
Always Obtainable -- Guy Mayor
Day Of Fury -- Ed Fury
A Date With The Boys -- Don Fuller, Kip Behar, Kris Studio Photographers
Masterpiece -- Freddie Regan, Andre Du Pre
Rico -- Rico
Wanted Model -- Steve Wengryn, Bob Storr
Because Of Him -- Ed Fury, Frank Renault
The Snow Body -- John Novak, Brad Moore
Ben-Hurry -- Alan Parker, Bruce Reed, Joe Leitel
Hot Harem -- Jerry Murray, Justin Tyme, Wayne Clark, Scott Bradley, Charles Buton, Bruce Browns, Glory Holden, Bess T Laye
The Days Of Greek Gods -- Bob Delmonteque, Jimmy Apollo, Artie Zeller
The Captives -- Frank Hlivjka, Alan Parker, John Novak, Bob Treichi