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Auction History Result 2j0685 EASY TO WED pressbook 1946 Van Johnson between Esther Williams & Lucille Ball, very rare! Date Sold 7/5/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 15" [28 x 38 cm]; 13 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 13 pages. (Learn More) Easy to Wed, the 1946 Edward Buzzell romantic marriage comedy ("Van Sings! Van Dances! Van Romances!";"MGM's big Technicolor musical!"; "From the screenplay 'Libeled Lady' by Murine Watkins, Howard Emmett Rogers and George Oppenheimer") starring Van Johnson ("He Sings! Dances! Romances!"), Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Kennan Wynn, Cecil Kellaway, Carlos Ramirez, Ben Blue, and Ethel Smith (billed as "Ethel Smith at The Organ"). Note that this movie was a re-make of the 1936 movie "Libeled Lady", with Jean Harlow in the lead role, and they give credit to the earlier movie's screenplay on the poster. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. 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! Note that this pressbook was created during the time when MGM (likely in a cost-cutting measure) stopped printing elaborate full-color covers for their pressbooks, and instead solely created several newsprint sections for each movie. It is difficult to know on such movies how many sections were originally created, but there were usually three of them, and if all three are present, then the pressbook is likely complete. Condition: fair to good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, all of the pages of each MGM pressbook from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time (see above), and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. This particular pressbook is fragile and has chips and paper loss in parts of the borders. Learn More about condition grades 
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