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Auction History Result 7y018 ANNIE GET YOUR GUN pressbook '50 Betty Hutton, covers unfold to make a 17x25 color poster! Date Sold 6/21/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12 1/2" x 17" [32 x 43 cm]; 36 pages) (Learn More) Annie Get Your Gun, the 1950 George Sidney historical cowboy western musical biography ("Now on the screen! Biggest musical under the sun!"; "Hear 10 Irving Berlin Songs!"; "Congratulations MGM! 'Annie Get Your Gun' is the best job ever done of transferring a stage musical to the screen. -Irving Berlin"; "At last on the screen!"; "Based on the musical play with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields"; about famed female sharpshooter Annie Oakley) starring Betty Hutton (in the title role as Annie Oakley), Howard Keel (as Frank Butler), Louis Calhern (as Buffalo Bill Cody), J. Carrol Naish (as Chief Sitting Bull), Edward Arnold, and Keenan Wynn. Note that Judy Garland was originally cast in the title role of Annie Oakley, but she was fired after a month of filming due to showing up late or not at all, and for conflicts with Busby Berkeley. Berkeley was the original director who was replaced by Charles Walters who was replaced by George Sidney. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that the covers of this pressbook fold out to form a cool 17" x 25" poster (see our image). Also 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. The large wrap-around cover has tears and paper loss around the edges, and some across the center (which is the spine of the pressbook). Some of the interior pages have some wear around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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