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Auction History Result 6y0448 CALL OF THE SAVAGE pressbook 1935 Powell & Short swinging on vine like Tarzan, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/30/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 15" x 22" [38 x 56 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Call of the Savage, the 1935 Lew Landers (billed as "Louis Friedlander") Africa jungle adventure thriller serial ("12 Chapters of Daring Adventures"; "From Otis Adelbert Kline's Argosy Magazine Story 'Jan of the Jungle'"; "The Amazing Jungle Thriller!"; about two doctors in Africa trying to find a cure for polio, and one wants to help the world and the other wants the $500,000 prize offered to whoever finds the cure) starring Noah Beery Jr. (billed as "Noah Beery Jr. of 'Tailspin Tommy'"), Dorothy Short, Walter Miller, Harry Woods, John Davidson, Bryant Washburn, William Desmond, Fred MacKaye, Russ Powell, and Jack Leonard (as the man in the gorilla suit). Note that Jack Leonard was one of the first men to play gorillas in movies. He was an extra in Tarzan the Ape Man, and the director did not like the way the men in ape suits were performing, and Jack Leonard said he could do better, and he was given the part! He and his wife made his gorilla suit and he studied real life gorillas to see how they moved and the sounds they made. He appeared in a dozen movies between 1932 and 1940, nine times of them as an ape! We don't know what happened to him after that (perhaps he passed away). If anyone knows more about Jack Leonard, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that Ray 'Crash' Corrigan and Charles Gemora were two actors who played lots of gorillas in movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Emil Van Horn and Jack Leonard each played around a dozen gorillas, and interestingly, that was all they did (no doubt all four of them owned a gorilla suit!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY first release movie paper items from this movie are incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a paper banner and some stills from this movie (and NO other first release movie paper) until we received this first release pressbook! 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: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. This very large pressbook was folded once in each direction. Learn More about condition grades 
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