April 2016
Photos: Meryl Streep Before She Was a Star
Just three years out of drama school when she auditioned for Kramer vs. Kramer, Meryl Streep never expected the Oscar the 1979 hit would earn her for best supporting actress, nor the record 20 nominations and two more wins she has today.
Meryl Streep in New York City’s Theater District, 1978.Photograph by Duane Michals; From the DC Moore Gallery, New York.
Photograph by Duane Michals; From the DC Moore Gallery, New York.Meryl Streep in New York City’s Theater District,1978.
From the Core Collection Production Files of The Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.John Cazale and Streep during the filming of The Deer Hunter, 1977.
Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe.Justin Henry and Dustin Hoffman in 1979.
© Columbia Pictures/Photofest.Streep in the film’s climactic courtroom sequence.
© Columbia Pictures/Photofest.Hoffman and Henry in the film.
© Columbia Pictures/Photofest.Hoffman, Streep, director-screenwriter Robert Benton, and producer Stanley Jaffe with their Academy Awards, 1980
© Columbia Pictures/Photofest.Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman while filming 1979’s Kramer vs. Kramer.
By Theo Westenberger/Theo Westenberger Archives, 1974-2008, Autry Museum, Los Angeles.Streep in New York City, 1979.
