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Auction History Result 5g701 JUNGLE MYSTERY pressbook '32 Tom Tyler action serial, cool art with wild animals! Date Sold 1/19/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11 1/2" x 18 1/4" [29 x 46 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) Jungle Mystery, the 1932 Ray Taylor Africa jungle adventure serial ("Based on 'Ivory Trail' by Talbot Mundy"; about two hunters in Africa searching for elephant ivory, and they have competition, and they also meet a man and his daughter who are looking for the girl's brother) starring Tom Tyler, Noah Beery Jr., William Desmond, Cecilia Parker, Philo McCullough, Carmelita Geraghty, and Jack Leonard (as the man in the gorilla suit). Note that Jack Leonard was one of the first men to play gorillas in movies. He was an extra in Tarzan the Ape Man, and the director did not like the way the men in ape suits were performing, and Jack Leonard said he could do better, and he was given the part! He and his wife made his gorilla suit and he studied real life gorillas to see how they moved and the sounds they made. He appeared in a dozen movies between 1932 and 1940, nine times of them as an ape! We don't know what happened to him after that (perhaps he passed away). If anyone knows more about Jack Leonard, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that Ray 'Crash' Corrigan and Charles Gemora were two actors who played lots of gorillas in movies in the 1930s and 1940s. Emil Van Horn and Jack Leonard each played around a dozen gorillas, and interestingly, that was all they did (no doubt all four of them owned a gorilla suit!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), 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 purchased 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! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. There are some stains and smudges in the top half of the front cover, but the pressbook is otherwise in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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