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Auction History Result 2p0224 STAR IS BORN pressbook 1937 William Wellman, Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Menjou, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/2/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 56 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 2 pages. (Learn More) A Star Is Born, the classic 1937 William A. Wellman (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) romantic Hollywood California acting melodrama ("Many a star is born to blush unseen... but not these two..."; "Is the price of stardom a broken heart?"; "The First Modern Picture in Technicolor"; "You'll be seeing stars - and love it!"; "Lights- camera- action!"; "Produced by David O. Selznick"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the true life story of Al Jolson and Ruby Keeler, this has since been re-made three times; with Judy Garland and James Mason, Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and most recently with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper!) starring Janet Gaynor (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Fredric March (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Andy Devine, Lionel Stander, Carole Landis, and Lana Turner (in one of her earliest big screen roles) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this pressbook, and that was 22 years ago! 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! Condition: good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. This particular pressbook was removed from a bound volume and there is damage on the spine. The covers are separated at the spine. The pressbook had a tipped-in herald that is no longer present. Learn More about condition grades 
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