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Auction History Result 3b0148 SWING HIGH SWING LOW pressbook 1937 Fred MacMurray, Carole Lombard, Dorothy Lamour, rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 15" [30 x 38 cm]; 36 pages) (Learn More) Swing High, Swing Low, the 1937 Mitchell Leisen Panama/New York City romantic love triangle musical ("Based on a play by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins"; written for the screen, in part, by Oscar Hammerstein II; about a manicurist on a ship going through the Panama Canal, intending to go to California, but she makes the mistake of spending the day in Panama, and she ends up in the company of a fellow who gets them both thrown in jail, and she misses her boat, and he makes it up to her by letting her live with him and his roommate, and naturally, they fall in love, and then his old girlfriend shows up, and that's just the beginning of this entertaining romantic musical!) starring Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Charles Butterworth, Jean Dixon, Dorothy Lamour (in her second credited movie role!), Harvey Stephens, and Anthony Quinn (in his first real role). Note that Anthony Quinn played the man that MacMurray and Lombard fight with in Panama, and he is credited as "The Don". He would have a number of similar minor roles. In 1937, he married Katherine DeMille (Cecil B.'s daughter), and that, plus a lot of acting talent, put him on a much faster road to stardom (and many, many children!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned 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: 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. This particular pressbook was removed from a bound volume and there is damage down the spine. Learn More about condition grades 
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