eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 2p0189 MONSIEUR VERDOUX pressbook 1947 Charlie Chaplin as modern French Bluebeard, classic, rare! Date Sold 8/2/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 32 pages) (Learn More) Monsieur Verdoux, the classic 1947 Charlie Chaplin romantic marriage crime murder serial killer black comedy ("Chaplin Changes! Can You?"; "The Story of a Modern French Bluebeard"; "Hysterical Laughter! Haunting Romance! Shocking Drama!"; "The sensational New Comedy"; "In 'Monsieur Verdoux' there is a peculiar intensity of drama...an even more peculiar hysteria of laughter -and a strange love story that hurts."; "Beauty on the block!"; "What will be the fate of these lovely girls in the hands of the modern Bluebeard?"; about a man who repeatedly marries women and then kills them for their money; Chaplin manages to make this hysterically funny at times, and the movie really does make you think about why killing is acceptable in war, but is not in peacetime; as Chaplin says in the movie, "Numbers sanctify", asking why it is OK for a country to kill thousands during wartime; from an idea suggested by Orson Welles) starring Charles Chaplin (in the title role as Henri Verdoux), Martha Raye (who proves herself to be Chaplin's equal, as an indestructible wife who just refuses to be killed!), Isobel Elsom, Robert Lewis, and Marilyn Nash (billed as "introducing for the first time Marilyn Nash") NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this pressbook, and only one in the last 12 years! 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 to very 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 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CST) |
|||||||||||||
