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Auction History Result 5s0007 BONNIE SCOTLAND pressbook 1935 Al Hirschfeld art of Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" [35 x 50 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has 4 pages. (Learn More) Bonnie Scotland, the 1935 James W. Horne British-in-India military screwball crime comedy ("Full length Feature"; about Stan moving to Scotland to inherit the "MacLaurel Estate", but discovering it is worthless, and they are then tricked into enlisting in the British Army in India, where they have many adventures!) starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy (Laurel and Hardy), James Finlayson, June Lang, and William Janney NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from the first release of this movie is incredibly rare. Not only have we never auctioned this pressbook before, but we have also NEVER auctioned any posters at all from the first release of the movie, which makes this pressbook all the more wonderful, because not only does it show the impossible-to-find posters, but it also shows them in color, and of course, most of the posters have wonderful different Al Hirschfeld art (and the original herald is also present, which also has Hirschfeld art)! 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! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. Note that 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. However, in the case of this particular pressbook, it managed to survive in FAR better condition than the vast majority of MGM pressbooks from this time! The paper is slightly fragile, but only somewhat, and it has darkened less than most MGM pressbooks of this period. It can actually be handled without fear of the pages chipping. It was folded across the middle at one time, and there is a light diagonal crease in the lower right corner of all pages, and there are some smudges around the edges, but this pressbook has surely survived in better condition than the vast majority of MGM pressbooks from this period! Learn More about condition grades 
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