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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook from The Billion Dollar Scandal, the 1933 Harry Joe Brown romantic crime comedy ("It shocked a nation"; "3 People Go To Prison!"; "Thousands Involved!"; "Lives Shattered!"; "2 Girls' Lives Ruined!"; "4 Men Kill Themselves!"; "Homes Smashed!"; "He Must Not Talk - was the order - and when bribes failed - they tried bullets to prevent the exposure of frenzied financiers!"; about a convict who gets out of prison and goes to work for a rich oil man as his masseur, but his brother falls for the daughter of the oil man, and he learns that the oil man is trying to pull off a "billion dollar swindle", so he gets some of his friends to help stop the oil man) starring Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Morgan, James Gleason, and Irving Pichel.

Here is an image of the front cover and back poster page, PLUS an interior two-page spread (in an unusual move, Paramount did NOT use the back cover of the pressbook to show the posters, showing those on the interior two-page spread; they instead used the back cover to show some one-sheets from shorts, including an incredible Betty Boop and a Mills Brothers Paramount Screen Song, neither of which likely exist today!):

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is now fully searchable!).