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Auction History Result 6b085 THREE PENNY OPERA pressbook '63 Die Dreigroschenoper, Curt Jurgens, great artwork! Date Sold 3/24/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 1/2" x 30" [34 x 76 cm]; 10 pages) (Learn More) Die Dreigroschenoper (released in the U.S. as "Three Penny Opera"), the 1963 Wolfgang Staudte French/German musical melodrama ("It's the sassiest, brassiest entertainment that ever flipped its skirts at you!!!"; "NOW all the marvelous mischief and merriment of 'The World's Most Popular Stage Musical' bubbles wickedly to the screen!"; "Three Penny Opera ...is priceless entertainment!"; "The longest run musical ever to brighten the stage lights up the screen with new excitement"; "By Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill"; "English lyrics by Eric Bentley") starring Curd Jurgens (as Macheath, Mack the Knife), Hildegard Knef (billed as "Hildegarde Neff"), June Ritchie, Gert Froebe, Lino Ventura, and Sammy Davis Jr. ("as the Streetsinger"). Note that Bertolt Brecht was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet from the 1920s to 1956. He was the main proponent of the genre named epic theater. During the Nazi period and World War II he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia and then in the United States. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Some of his works include: The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and Mother Courage and Her Children 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 are many smudges in the white background areas of the covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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