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Auction History Result 8k532 HOTEL IMPERIAL pressbook '39 c/u of Ray Milland kissing beautiful Isa Miranda! Date Sold 6/8/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12 1/4" x 15 1/4" [31 x 39 cm]; 24 pages) (Learn More) Hotel Imperial, the 1939 Robert Florey World War I (WWI) romantic revenge melodrama ("Two trapped by love... amid the danger and chaos of a hate-torn world!"; about a woman who believes her sister committed suicide because of the man she was involved with, and she decides to get revenge in an incredibly elaborate scheme, beginning with getting a job as a maid in the hotel where he lives) starring Isa Miranda (a major Italian actress, who made her Hollywood debut in this movie, but she spoke no English, and delivered her lines phonetically, which did not help at all, and she returned to Italy after one more U.S. movie), Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois, and Don Cossack Chorus. Note that this movie had a very troubled background. It was first started in the early 1930s when it was to be a sound remake of the silent movie of the same title (which was made in 1927 with Pola Negri), starring Marlene Dietrich, but she did not like the script, and she quit after much filming, causing the studio to lose much money. A few years later, Paramount tried to make it again with Margaret Sullavan in the lead role, but she broke her arm and that ended that. At this point, Dietrich returned, this time with von Sternberg, but the studio had had enough of her, and they hired Italian star Isa Miranda, but they may not have known she did not speak English, and that certainly did not help! A few years later, the movie was remade as "Five Graves to Cairo". 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. There is some wear around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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