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d545 SHEIK movie pressbook '21 Rudolph Valentino

Date Sold 10/12/2004
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 9 1/4" x 12 1/4"; 12 pages) (Learn More)

The Sheik, the classic 1921 George Melford Arabia silent romantic melodrama ("It's a Paramount Picture"; "Based on the novel by Edith M. Hull"; about an Arab sheik who meets a female British socialite, and he falls heavily for her, but she wants no part of him, so he kidnaps her and takes her to his palace in the desert; she rejects him, but after she is re-kidnapped by bandits does she start to realize that she has fallen in love with the sheik, who rescues her in the nick of time!) starring Rudolph Valentino (in the title role as Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan), Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, and Adolphe Menjou. Note that Valentino had risen to stardom in the late 1910s, but this movie made him a superstar! He would complete ten more movies over the next five years, but sadly, after making a sequel to this movie, "The Son of the Sheik", in 1926, he passed away from complications after surgery. He was just 31 years of age, and the entire world mourned his passing.
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Important Added Info: Note that this is an incomplete pressbook and is missing pages 1-4 and pages 17-20. It does have the images of the entire lobby set, the glass slide, a bunch of newspaper ads, and a special 2-page spread which is a black and white reproduction of the window card. But please do not bid on this thinking it is a complete pressbook, as it is missing eight pages!

Condition: good. there are an unknown number of pages missing; 6" tear in the middle of the back cover and well as numerous small tears around the edges of all the pages; separation at the top and bottom of the spine on all pages and smudges on many pages

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