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Auction History Result 1c887 TEST TUBE BABIES pressbook R60s retitled The Pill, on the tip of every girl's lip! Date Sold 7/14/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1960s) Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 8 1/2" x 11 1/4" [22 x 29 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Test Tube Babies, the 1948 W. Merle Connell artificial insemination sexploitation movie ("Bold! Daring! True!"; "Exciting! Revealing!"; "Frank!") starring Dorothy Duke, William Thomason, Timothy Farrell, Peggy Roach, and John Michael. Note that this seemed like a far fetched fantasy in 1948 when this movie was made (and in fact, it had been described in science fiction stories for years before this). But exactly 30 years later, this fantasy became a reality when Louise Brown was conceived in this exact way in an English hospital (and the doctors who performed the procedure won the Nobel Prize decades later, in 2010). Also note that Timothy Farrell is completely forgotten today, but he had a fascinating life. He worked for 26 years for the Los Angeles County Marshal's Office, and was a movie actor at the same time! He mostly worked on low budget movies, including several for Ed Wood, although he did play a bailiff in the 1954 "A Star is Born", which was the ultimate typecasting, because he himself had been a bailiff, but he eventually rose to be the County Marshal. But in 1975, he was convicted of a felony (using deputies for political activities), and he was fired. He lived for another 14 years before dying of a heart attack. His life should be made into a movie, no doubt with Johnny Depp in the starring role! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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: very good, NO CUTS. Learn More about condition grades 
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