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Auction History Result 4s440 ELMER GANTRY pressbook '60 Jean Simmons & Shirley Jones damn Burt Lancaster's soul! Date Sold 1/25/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 1/2" x 18" [34 x 46 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry, the 1960 Richard Brooks religious bogus-evangelist romantic melodrama ("You're all sinners... You'll all burn in hell!"; "Tell 'em Gantry... Save 'em from sin... lead 'em to salvation... tell 'em about everything-but not about your whiskey and your women!"; "The Screen Has Never Known A Man Like Elmer Gantry"; "Sinner! Elmer Gantry wants you! To save your soul! to see the light! are you ready, sinner? he wants you to know all about heaven... but not about his whiskey and his women!"; "Bless Him! Thousands of believers shouted his praises!"; "Damn Him! Three women damned his soul!"; "If there was a dollar to be made-Gantry would make it... If there was a soul to be saved-Gantry would save it..."; "For Adults Only. No Children Under 16 Admitted Unless Accompanied By An Adult"; "Based on the bold novel by Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis"; "Nobel Prize Winner Sinclair Lewis' bold novel of passion and damnation now bursts full-life across the screen!"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; note that Burt Lancaster did an excellent job portraying the lead of Sinclair Lewis' novel, but the events of the novel had to be drastically toned down for the screen, so that it would not appear that the movie was anti-organized religion, just anti-fake faith healers!) starring Burt Lancaster (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Elmer Gantry), Jean Simmons (as Sister Sharon Falconer), Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Patti Page 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: good to very good, NO CUTS. The front cover has separated from the pressbook and there is darkening and slight wear around the edges. Learn More about condition grades 
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