Big Eyes, Margaret Keane’s Private Room Key

original movie prop

A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s. This is Margaret Keane’s private room key from the 2014 Tim Burton Film, Big Eyes. As Margaret sits hunched in her artist's garret, smoking and churning out the work that has made their fortune; unable to bask in her own glory this key holds the secret. You can see this key when Margaret’s daughter finds the key using it to unlock the private room and finding out her mother was the artist behind all the success.