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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!

So below is the pressbook from Rhapsody in Blue, the 1945 Irving Rapper musical biography ("Warner's crowning glory!"; "The Jubilant Story of George Gershwin"; "Dances created and directed by Le Roy Prinz"; about famed music composer George Gershwin) starring Robert Alda ("as George Gershwin"), Joan Leslie ("as Julie Adams"), Alexis Smith ("as Christine Gilbert"), Charles Coburn ("as Max Dreyfus"), Julie Bishop ("as Lee Gershwin"), Albert Basserman ("as Professor Frank"), Morris Carnovsky, Rosemary De Camp ("as Mrs. Gershwin"), Herbert Rudley ("as Ira Gershwin"), Eddie Marr ("as Buddy De Sylva"), Oscar Loraine ("as Ravel"), Ernest Bolm ("as Otto Kahn"), Martin Noble ("as Jascha Heifetz"), and Hugo Kirchhoffer ("as Walter Damrasch"), and "as themselves" nine famous stars of the period in cameo roles, including Al Jolson, Oscar Levant, Paul Whitema on, George White, Hazel Scott, Anne Brown, Tom Patricola, "and The Warner Choral Singers"

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior two-page spread:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).