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Auction History Result 3b0168 WOMAN OF AFFAIRS pressbook 1928 Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17 1/2" x 20 1/2" [44 x 52 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) A Woman of Affairs, the 1928 Clarence Brown romantic love triangle melodrama ("From the story by Michael Arlen"; the source novel was VERY daring for its time, in that it concerns a woman whose family breaks up her romance with the man she loves, and she marries a man she doesn't love, only to have him commit suicide on their wedding night because he has syphilis; she then becomes promiscuous herself, trying to "save his reputation" by making it seem that he killed himself because of her promiscuity; this was too daring for MGM, and they changed it so that the husband committed suicide because he was an embezzler, but they keep the part of Garbo becoming promiscuous, which doesn't have the same meaning, but they add in that she pays off her deceased husband's debts, incurred by his embezzling!) starring John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown (billed as "John Mack Brown"), and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (19 years old and fifth billed, but he had been in lots of movies in the past seven years, thanks to his famous dad!). Note that many feel that this is surely Greta Garbo's best silent movie (it had a musical score and sound effects, but was basically a silent movie), and many call it her best movie period. It certainly was a very daring role, and only Garbo could have made her character both believable and sympathetic! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! 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 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: poor to fair, 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. In this particular pressbook, the pages are extremely fragile, and it is darkening and separating on the folds, and there are tiny tears around the edges and on the folds. Someone put tape along parts of the folds and borders, which has darkened and has made the pressbook even more fragile. Obviously, one would prefer to find an example of this in better condition, but we don't know that one exists anywhere! Learn More about condition grades 
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