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Auction History Result 3b0062 BEST FOOT FORWARD pressbook 1943 Lucille Ball, Harry James with trumpet, Weidler, very rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 15" [28 x 38 cm]; 31 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 10 pages. (Learn More) Best Foot Forward, the 1943 Edward Buzzell military prep school musical comedy ("Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's Honey of a Musical!"; "Technicolor and Terrific!"; "Book by John Cecil Holm"; "Music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane"; "Produced on the stage by George Abbott"; based on the hit Broadway musical, Lucille Ball is a movie star who visits a military prep school and is invited to be queen of the prom, but then complications ensue) starring Lucille Ball (billed as "Gorgeous Lucille Ball"), Harry James (billed as "Hot Harry James and His Music Makers"), William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler (in her final movie role before retiring at 16!), Tommy Dix, Nancy Walker, June Allyson (in her first movie role!), Kenny Bowers, Gloria DeHaven, Jack Jordan, Chill Wills, and Stanley Donen (uncredited in his first movie role as a cadet, years before he became a director!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned 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! Note that this pressbook was created during the time when MGM (likely in a cost-cutting measure) stopped printing elaborate full-color covers for their pressbooks, and instead solely created several newsprint sections for each movie. It is difficult to know on such movies how many sections were originally created, but there were usually three of them, and if all three are present, then the pressbook is likely complete. Condition: fair to 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. In the case of this pressbook, it is one of the ones created by MGM during World War II, when they had massive paper shortages, and it is not only entirely printed on newsprint, but also some very strange paper that aged poorly. It is uncut (and as far as we can tell, complete, but, as noted above, it can be very hard to tell with these MGM pressbooks made during World War II). However, the pages are extremely fragile. Learn More about condition grades 
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