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Auction History Result 5z574 GATEWAY OF THE MOON pressbook '28 Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, a tempest of emotion! Date Sold 2/16/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17 1/2" x 22 1/2" [44 x 57 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Gateway of the Moon, the 1928 John Griffith Wray silent South America romantic melodrama ("A Tropical Tempest of Emotion on the Amazon"; "Story by Clifford Bax") starring Dolores Del Rio, Walter Pidgeon, Ted McNamara, Leslie Fenton, Anders Randolf, and Noble Johnson. Note that Walter Pidgeon was born in 1897, and started making silent movies in the mid 1920s, but he had limited success. He had a wonderful speaking voice, but that did not lead to stardom in early sound movies. Finally, in 1937, at the age of 40, MGM put him under contract, but still limited him to supporting roles. His "big break" finally came in 1941 with "How Green Was My Valley", and he became one of MGM's top stars of the early 1940s (no doubt helped by so many other male stars being away at war). He stayed with MGM for the remainder of his career. Also, note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. There is a 17 1/2" horizontal tear 5" from the bottom of the cover, with a vertical tear above that, so the pressbook must be handled carefully. The pressbook was removed from a bound volume and there are tiny tears and tiny holes down the spine, but they do not affect the images or writing. Learn More about condition grades 
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