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Auction History Result 7k107 THREE LIVE GHOSTS pressbook '36 Richard Arlen, Beryl Mercer, wonderful Hirschfeld artwork! Date Sold 3/19/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 20" [36 x 51 cm]; 17 pages). Also included is a herald that has 3 pages. (Learn More) Three Live Ghosts (also released as "3 Live Ghosts"), the 1936 H. Bruce Humberstone World War I (WWI) comedy ("The report of their death was greatly exaggerated! It's a riot!"; "Nominated for the laugh prize of 1936!"; "From the play by Frederick S. Isham"; about three soldiers who were presumed dead, and then they show back up right after the end of World War I, and their relatives and friends are not happy to see them, for various reasons!) starring Richard Arlen, Beryl Mercer, Claud Allister, Charles McNaughton, and Cecilia Parker NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Al Hirschfeld Important Added Info: 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! Condition: poor, WITH CUTS. The pressbook has a cut on page 9. 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 was folded across the middle and has completely separated on that fold, and it has paper loss around the edges of both halves of the covers and incredibly fragile interior pages, so bear that in mind before placing a bid. Learn More about condition grades 
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