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Auction History Result 1p0144 NOW I'LL TELL 16x22 pressbook 1934 Spencer Tracy, Alice Faye, Helen Twelvetrees, very rare! Date Sold 2/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 16" x 22" [41 x 56 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein, the 1934 Edwin J. Burke romantic love triangle gambling biographical melodrama starring Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Geckler, and Hobart Cavanaugh. Note that this movie was loosely based on the life of real life major gambler-turned-gangster, Arnold Rothstein, perhaps best remembered for having "fixed" the 1919 baseball World Series. Rothstein lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a poker game, and then accused those in the game with him of cheating him, and refused to pay them. He famously said, "They can't collect from a dead man", but he failed to realize that once they realized he was never going to pay, they had nothing to lose by killing him, and they did! After his death, his wife, Inez Norton, wrote a book called "Now I'll Tell", which purported to tell the "true story" of Rothstein's life and death, and she was billed as "Mrs. Arnold Rothstein". Hollywood saw a good thing in the book, and Fox bought the rights, with their top male star Spencer Tracy playing the Rothstein character, and Inez Norton had a cameo role in the movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we were recently 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!). Now we continue to auction pressbooks from this collection, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, we are solely auctioning larger pressbooks, mostly 14" x 17" 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 can't be found in great condition, and some of them are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have many 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 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. This extremely large pressbook (see above for its exact measurements) is complete and uncut, and it was folded once in each direction. Learn More about condition grades 
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