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Adventure in Manhattan, the 1936 Edward Ludwig New York City romantic love triangle screwball comedy ("The gal who took Mr. Deeds to Town steps out again!"; a strange mixture of comedy and melodrama, with a very complicated story of McCrea as a super successful reporter who seemingly can predict the future, and Arthur as a would-be actress with a complicated history; strangest of all though, the movie starts out with the bizarre story of Jean Arthur telling McCrea she was married to a very wealthy man; she had an affair and her husband divorced her and leaves her penniless and also refused to let her see their small child; years later, she has been reduced to living on the streets, and she had just gotten word that her husband will let her see her child, so she stole McCrea's wallet in order to make herself look nice for the reunion, and she tells McCrea the story of what occurred so that he will wait three hours so she can finally see her child, and then the movie moves on to the original plot of McCrea as a reporter who predicts the future) starring Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell, and Herman Bing. Note that if this movie sounds really complicated, it is because the producer of the movie bought the rights to 'Purple and Fine Linen' by May Edginton, which had been a silent movie called "Three Hours" in 1927. They took that plot and used it for the beginning of this movie, but then completely deviated from it, and changed a tragic melodrama into a bizarre comedy! It has to be seen to be believed!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook!

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!

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