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Auction History Result 6h0191 GONE WITH THE WIND pressbook 1939 Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, elaborate & incredibly rare! Date Sold 4/14/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 16 1/2" x 18 1/2" [42 x 47 cm]; 50 pages) (Learn More) Gone with the Wind, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) Civil War era romantic melodrama epic ("The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Made!"; "In the New Screen splendor... The most magnificent picture ever!"; "David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South"; "Screen play by Sidney Howard"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Clark Gable (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; "as Rhett Butler"), Vivien Leigh (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; "and presenting Vivien Leigh as O'Hara"), Leslie Howard ("as Ashley Wilkes"), Olivia de Havilland (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; "as Melanie"), Hattie McDaniel ("as Mammy"), Thomas Mitchell ("as Gerald O'Hara"), Butterfly McQueen (as Prissy), Ann Rutherford ("as Carreen O'Hara"), George Reeves (in his first credited movie role!), Victor Jory, Jane Darwell, Ward Bond, Ona Munson ("as Belle Watling"), Yakima Canutt, Harry Davenport ("as Dr. Meade"), Carroll Nye ("as Frank Kennedy"), Laura Hope Crews ("as Aunt Pittypat"), Alicia Rhett ("as India Wilkes"), Barbara O'Neil ("as Ellen O'Hara"), Marcella Martin (as Cathleen Calvert), Frank Coghlan Jr., Fred Crank, Rand Brooks, Cammie King Conlan, Patrick Curtis, and William Bakewell NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned three examples of this first release pressbook, and only one in the last 23 years! Note that MGM knew full well that this movie would be a massive hit, and they made one of the most elaborate pressbooks ever! It is a giant folder that is printed with full-color images of almost all the posters and lobby cards when unfolded. When it is folded, the folder holds five different supplements that measure 16" x 18" that are all heavily illustrated, plus an 8 1/2" x 20 1/2" accessories sheet giving the prices of everything you could order. Naturally, given the very large size and having loose sections, very few of these have ever survived. As noted above, we have previously auctioned three examples of this, in 1993, 2001, and 2022, and now we have our fourth example, but it may be many years before we have a fifth example! Note: We have 27 images of this pressbook, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 27 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 17. Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. The cover of the folder is separated from the rest, and the rest of the folder has tears and tiny paper loss on the folded areas (see our image of the folder opened flat to see exactly what condition defects it has). The interior sections are in generally nice condition (again, see our many images). Learn More about condition grades 
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