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Auction History Result 9b0189 BISHOP MISBEHAVES pressbook 1935 Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan, directed by E.A. Dupont! Date Sold 6/22/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" [35 x 50 cm]; 15 pages). Also included is a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) The Bishop Misbehaves, the 1935 Ewald Andre Dupont (billed as "E.A. Dupont") mistaken identity crime comedy ("The theatre's comedy success - now a screen hit!"; about a man from Chicago visiting London, and a woman, who thinks all people from Chicago are criminals, asks him to help her rob the man who cheater her father, and he thinks it is a joke, but learns it is for real, and a bishop gets caught up in it as well) starring Edmund Gwenn (in the title role), Maureen O'Sullivan, Lucile Watson, Reginald Owen, Dudley Digges, and Norman Foster NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). 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: very good to fine, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook was folded once in each direction, surely soon after it was printed. Otherwise, it is in surprisingly really nice condition. The pages have darkened slightly but are not very fragile, very unusual for an MGM pressbook of this time, and the tipped-in herald is in nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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