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Auction History Result 2j0681 DESIRE ME pressbook 1947 Greer Garson survived Nazi prison camp in WWII, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/5/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 15" [28 x 38 cm]; 16 pages). Also included are 2 ad supplements that have 17 pages and 2 pages. (Learn More) Desire Me, the 1947 George Cukor (who was so disappointed with the production of this movie, he had his name taken off of all credits; this was the first movie MGM ever released without a director's credit) post-World War II (WWII) romantic melodrama ("From a Novel by Leonhard Frank"; about a married French couple held prisoner in a Nazi camp in World War II; they make a good male friend in the camp, and the husband is killed, and the friend comes to his widow to tell her the news, and does not know how to tell her that he loves her and wants to make a new life with her) starring Greer Garson (billed as "Greer Garson's great in M-G-M's 'Desire Me'"), Robert Mitchum, Richard Hart, Morris Ankrum, and George Zucco 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 MGM created "newsprint only" pressbooks throughout World War II (due to paper shortages). After World War II, they had first continued with similar pressbooks, but they added a two-color cover to them, and this is one of those pressbooks! Condition: fair to good, NO CUTS. This pressbook 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). The interior pages have darkened and there are tears and tiny paper loss at the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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