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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook from The Melody Lingers On, the 1935 David Burton family relationship romantic musical (based on the novel by Lowell Brentano; a really wild convoluted story of an Italian woman who has an affair with an opera singer/army officer, and she gives their baby to a convent for safekeeping, but after World War I, during which he died, she tries to get her baby back, and they won't do it because she is now single, so she becomes a nun to be close to her son, but she doesn't know which boy he is!; she figures out who he is, but he has been adopted by a rich diplomatic family, so she teaches herself the piano and becomes a concert pianist, which lets her become friends with the diplomat, and she tries to teach her son, who doesn't know who she is, to be a musician like his father, but his adopted parents are against it, and ultimately, she reveals the truth, and he becomes an opera star like his father) starring Josephine Hutchinson, George Houston (in his second movie role!), John Halliday, Mona Barrie, and Helen Westley