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Auction History Result 3p0094 SWEEPINGS pressbook 1933 Chicago businessman Lionel Barrymore, great RKO deco art, very rare! Date Sold 1/17/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) Sweepings, the 1933 John Cromwell Chicago Illinois family relationship department store melodrama ("Conquering the world that he might lay it at his children's feet... only to find that they were unfit to rule"; "From the famous novel by Lester Cohen"; a wild story covering many decades; it begins in 1871 after the great Chicago fire, with a man moving to Chicago with his wife and starting a store; he has a Jewish assistant who helps him build the business into a giant department store; he has three sons who he hopes will take over his business some day, but one by one they prove themselves unfit to do so, and unknown to the father, they sell their shares to the assistant!) starring Lionel Barrymore, Alan Dinehart, Gloria Stuart, William Gargan, Eric Linden, Gregory Ratoff, and George Meeker NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this pressbook! 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 received 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. It was folded across the middle. It was removed from a bound volume and there is damage down the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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