It was likely one of three paintings he completed that month. Kastel painted oil on Masonite, and “Jaws” didn’t take him long. “But I think everyone assumed the girl swimming was the girl from the movie.” “If you know me, you can tell it’s me,” says Stern, who has a copy of the poster signed by Spielberg. Stern says she didn’t get recognized despite the poster’s ubiquity - including being on a giant billboard in Times Square. “I knew it was a book cover and that was it,” says the now-model, now named Allison Stern, who married real-estate developer Leonard Stern and is now a prominent philanthropist, with an area named for her at the Central Park Zoo.Įverett CollectionShe lay across two stools to simulate a swimming motion, and was paid $35. For the swimmer, a photographer friend suggested 24-year-old Wilhelmina model Allison Maher. Kastel headed over to the American Museum of Natural History and took a few photos of stuffed sharks waiting to be cleaned. He told me to make the shark larger and more realistic.” “I did a very rough sketch for Len Leones while we were talking, and he OK’d it. “I just thought it was a great visual,” says Kastel, now 83. Kastel didn’t have to go beyond the first few pages to find the most arresting passage - when young Chrissie Watkins goes skinny-dipping off the coast of Amity, a fictional Northeast resort town, and becomes a snack for a massive great white shark. “Oscar said to me, ‘It’s going to be a best-seller,’ ” Kastel tells The Post. Kastel was in the offices of publisher Bantam in 1974 when boss Oscar Dystel handed him a copy of the thriller. The original artwork for “Jaws,” used for both the cover of the Peter Benchley book and the Steven Spielberg film, which came out 40 years ago this summer, has vanished, says artist Roger Kastel.
It’s one of the most iconic images in film history - and no one knows where it is.
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