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Auction History Result 3f0331 SCOUNDREL pressbook 1935 Julie Haydon on her knees before dapper Noel Coward, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/22/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) The Scoundrel, the 1935 Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur supernatural ghost fantasy romantic melodrama ("Written, directed, and produced by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur"; about a famous book editor whom everyone knows, but no one really likes; he uses and abuses women and scorns everyone; he is killed in a plane crash and appears before God, who sends him back to Earth for one month, telling him that if he can find someone who will love him and cry over him during that time, he will go to Heaven, but otherwise, he will spend all of eternity wandering the Earth without finding peace) starring Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, Hope Williams, Rosita Moreno, and Martha Sleeper. Note that the year prior to this movie, famed screenwriters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur independently produced, wrote, and directed "Crime Without Passion", an unusual movie starring Claude Rains. They followed it with this equally unusual movie, and they got legendary playwright Noel Coward to play the lead role! This movie was one of four that they directed and wrote between 1934 and 1936. They found far greater success as a screenwriting team, and wrote many great classics! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this pressbook! Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut! Condition: good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. This particular pressbook was removed from a bound volume and there is damage down the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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