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Auction History Result 1h0197 CHINA SEAS pressbook + herald 1935 Clark Gable, sexy Jean Harlow & Wallace Beery, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/26/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 19 3/4" [36 x 50 cm]; 24 pages). Also included are 3 ad supplements that have one page, one page, and 9 pages, and also a herald that has 4 pages. (Learn More) China Seas, the 1935 Tay Garnett Shanghai romantic love triangle high seas action adventure thriller (a pretty wild story of a captain of a steamship bound from China to Shanghai with a cargo of gold, and his floozy girlfriend "China Doll" is along on the voyage, but he meets his former girlfriend, a classy English widow, and he starts romancing her, which makes his girlfriend jealous, so she plots with her buddy to rob the gold, and the captain is almost killed, and the buddy commits suicide, and the widow realizes the captain loves his girlfriend, even though she tried to kill him, so the widow leaves, and the girlfriend is arrested, and the captain philosophically prepares for another voyage!) starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, Dudley Digges, and C. Aubrey Smith. Note that the classy English widow was played by Rosalind Russell. She had been signed by MGM the year before, and had played minor roles in several MGM movies. The following year, she got some starring roles, and she would become one of MGM's leading actresses of the 1940s, and one of their most successful actresses during World War II! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Note that this is one of a truly remarkable collection of 37 uncut pressbooks we have been consigned and are auctioning in 37 separate auctions! This is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever auctioned at one time. 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 can't be found in great condition, and some of them are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have many 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 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). Note: We have 14 images of this pressbook, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 14 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 4. 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 has far less fragile interior pages than other pressbook of this time, although they are still somewhat fragile. But overall, this pressbook has survived in about as nice condition as one could hop and it has three supplements and the original herald. See our many images to get a good sense of the exact condition of this pressbook. Learn More about condition grades 
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