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Auction History Result 1p0082 GIRLS' DORMITORY 16x22 pressbook 1936 Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon, Herbert Marshall, rare! Date Sold 2/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 16" x 22" [41 x 56 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More) Girls' Dormitory, the 1936 Irving Cummings romantic melodrama (based on the play by Ladislas Fodor; about a director of an all-girl school in Switzerland, who has a relationship with a female professor there, but he becomes involved with a beautiful young student, and it is unclear throughout the movie who he will end up with) starring Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon (billed on U.S. posters as "Introducing A New Personality Simone Simon"), Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen, and Shirley Deane. Note that Simone Simon started acting in Europe in 1931, but was signed by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1936 to a Hollywood contract, and he billed her in the above way in this movie. In 1938, she became disenchanted with the roles she was given in Hollywood and she returned to France, where she had a starring role in "La Bete Humaine". In 1941, she returned to the U.S. and had a second U.S. career in movies such as "All That Money Can Buy" and "Cat People"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we were recently 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!). Now we continue to auction pressbooks from this collection, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, we are solely auctioning larger pressbooks, mostly 14" x 17" 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 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 we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also 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 received 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: good, NO CUTS. This extremely large pressbook (see above for its exact measurements) is complete and uncut, and it was folded once in each direction. The covers are separated at the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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