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Auction History Result 1g104 O'SHAUGHNESSY'S BOY pressbook '35 Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Spanky McFarland shown! Date Sold 9/17/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 20" [36 x 51 cm]; 21 pages) (Learn More) O'Shaughnessy's Boy, the 1935 Richard Boleslawski father-son family relationship circus performer melodrama ("The Grandest Pals on Earth Reunited..."; "Laugh, cry, thrill! Their most beloved story!"; an attempt to recreate the success of "The Champ", with the same stars, and a very similar plot; here, Beery is a lion tamer in a circus who is married to a trapeze artist; after they have a son, his wife runs off, and he is so despondent that he is mauled by a lion and loses an arm; for the rest of the movie, Beery must pretend to be one-armed, and he searches for his lost son, eventually finding him in a military academy where he was put after his wife died in a trapeze accident; to win his son back, Beery must return to being a lion tamer, especially difficult because he has one arm and he is now petrified of lions!) starring Wallace Beery (in the title role as Captain Michael 'Windy' 'O'Shaugnessy), Jackie Cooper (in the title role as Joseph 'Stubby' O'Shaughnessy), George 'Spanky' McFarland (who played Stubby as a child!), Henry Stephenson, Sara Haden, and Clarence Muse. Note that Spanky McFarland plays Jackie Cooper's character as a young boy, in a rare non-Our Gang performance, and because of his popularity at the time, he was given a very large third billing! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut, but the pressbook is missing the herald that was once tipped in to the inside front cover (this is not unusual). However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook had been folded across the middle and there is separation at the left and right of that fold on the covers and all the interior pages, and the interior pages are really fragile. Learn More about condition grades 
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