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Over the Moon, the 1939 Thornton Freeland English romantic inheritance comedy ("The happiest, snappiest comedy in years"; "Merle and four men in the moon... But four's a crowd when the moon is a honeymoon! She drops one off in Paris...another at St. Moritz... the third at Monte Carlo. Then she finds out why Venice is the most romantic spot on Earth!"; "Hey nonny nonny, Merle and her Johnny Ran off for a journey in June"; "They laughed at conventions And wedding intentions, And their hearts jumped Over the Moon."; "A comedy as light as your heart when you're in love! Written especially for the beautiful star of 'Wuthering Heights' by America's foremost playwright."; "You'll loop the loop with laughter, at it's new slants on love!"; "Robert E. Sherwood's New Comedy"; "Based on a story by Robert Sherwood and Lajos Biro"; based on the story by Robert Emmett Sherwood, author of the play, "The Petrified Forest", and many wonderful Hollywood screenplays, including "The Best Years of Our Lives"; about a beautiful young English girl who falls in love with a noble young doctor, and he sells his practice so she can have the trip of a lifetime, but then she inherits millions, and that causes a major rift between them, and they separate, but everything works out in the end) starring Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas, and Louis Borel (billed as "Louis Borell"). Note that this movie was made right after Wuthering Heights, and Alexander Korda commissioned famed playwright Robert Sherwood to write a movie screenplay that Merle Oberon could star in, and this was the result!
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Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also note that this is one of a remarkable collection of 47 mostly United Artists pressbooks (mostly from the 1930s) that came from the collection of a very longtime collector who recently passed away. Pressbooks like these are almost all incredibly rare and almost never change hands. This is a wonderful opportunity to obtain one or more of these extremely rare pressbooks, all of which are uncut, and several of them have rare supplements or heralds (and if they do, that is noted above).

Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, 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!

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