eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2j0664 CASANOVA BROWN pressbook 1944 Gary Cooper & Teresa Wright, greatest romantic comedy, rare! Date Sold 7/5/2022Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 21" [36 x 53 cm]; 41 pages) (Learn More) Casanova Brown, the 1944 Sam Wood romantic screwball comedy ("The greatest romantic comedy of all time!"; "From a play by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell"; "World famous, best-seller author Fannie Hurst picks 'Casanova Brown' as 'Picture of the month' in her first review for Modern Screen magazine"; produced by Nunnally Johnson; maybe this was far funnier in 1944!; Cooper was briefly married to Wright, and they divorced, and she discovers she's pregnant, so after the baby is born, she plans to put it up for adoption, but Cooper kidnaps the baby instead, planning to be a single father; obviously, this movie would never be remade, especially not as a comedy!) starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Frank Morgan, Anita Louise, Patricia Collinge, Edmond Breon, and Jill Esmond. Note that this movie reunited the lead stars from "Pride of the Yankees" (where Gary Cooper played Lou Gehrig and Teresa Wright played his wife)! Also note that this movie was based on a play called "Little Accident", which had previously been filmed three different times in the 1930s, and that play was written by famous character actor Thomas Mitchell, apparently his only writing credit of any note! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this first release 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! Condition: good, NO CUTS. Note that we solely give an overall grade to these rare pressbooks, and tell you whether it is complete and uncut. However, you can view our multiple images of the covers and the interior pages that should give you a good sense of the pressbook's condition. Learn More about condition grades
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