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Auction History Result 5c0417 MELODY LINGERS ON pressbook 1935 woman becomes nun & concert pianist to help her son, rare! Date Sold 7/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 28 pages) (Learn More) The Melody Lingers On, the 1935 David Burton family relationship romantic musical ("A golden symphony of thrilling song, vibrant romance and soul stirring emotion!"; based on the novel by Lowell Brentano; a really wild convoluted story of an Italian woman who has an affair with an opera singer/army officer, and she gives their baby to a convent for safekeeping, but after World War I, during which he died, she tries to get her baby back, and they won't do it because she is now single, so she becomes a nun to be close to her son, but she doesn't know which boy he is!; she figures out who he is, but he has been adopted by a rich diplomatic family, so she teaches herself the piano and becomes a concert pianist, which lets her become friends with the diplomat, and she tries to teach her son, who doesn't know who she is, to be a musician like his father, but his adopted parents are against it, and ultimately, she reveals the truth, and he becomes an opera star like his father) starring Josephine Hutchinson, George Houston (in his second movie role!), John Halliday, Mona Barrie, and Helen Westley NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Howard Chandler Christy Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned 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 to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. There are light smudges on the covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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