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  Auction History Result RED SHOES pressbook 1950 Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, ballerina Moira Shearer! Date Sold 11/1/1999Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb) (Learn More) The Red Shoes, the classic 1948 (released in the U.S. in 1948 in a very limited release, and then in a wider release in 1949, and then in a very wide release in 1950!) Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger English dance ballet romantic melodrama ("... Dance she did, and dance she must between her two loves."; "There has never been a motion picture like 'The Red Shoes'"; "There have never been reviews as wonderful as these..."; "Winner of three Academy Awards"; "Written, Produced and Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen) starring Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tcherina, and Leonide Massine ("The part of The Shoemaker created and danced by Leonide Massine"). Note that Shearer did not want to make this movie, because of how difficult it would be for her to perform the many dance scenes, and it took Powell and Pressburger more than a year to convince her to make it! Also note that this movie won Academy Awards for art direction and music scoring, and it is widely considered to be one of the movies that made the best use of three-strip Technicolor. Also note that this movie includes a scene of the dancers outdoors by tall buildings, and it was too costly to film that scene outdoors, so that scene was done with the judicious use of matte paintings! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this movie had a limited release in the U.S. in October of 1948 (no doubt to qualify for the Academy Awards). Posters and lobby cards from that "pre-awards" release exist, but they are quite rare. Then it received a general release in the U.S. in 1949, AFTER it won Oscars, and it had a different ad campaign that included the tagline "Winner of Three Academy Awards". Early in 1950, the movie received an even wider release in the U.S., but with the same posters that had been used in 1949. However, a pressbook was created for this very wide release that referenced how well the movie had done in 1949 on its interior pages. If there was a pressbook for the 1948 or 1949 U.S. releases, we have never auctioned either, and this may well be the first U.S. pressbook taht was created for this classic film. Condition: No condition recorded. 
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