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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 Silver Skates, the 1943 Leslie Goodwins ice skating sports musical ("The show of wonders that never cease!"; "Monogram's great ice spectacle!") starring Kenny Baker, Patricia Morison, Belita (billed as "Belita Wizard of the Ice"; she was an Olympic ice skater, who first appeared in the 1936 Olympics at 12 years old, and she appeared in several Republic movies that involved ice skating, and later in some non-ice skating dramatic roles), Frick & Frack (Werner Groebli & Hans Mauch; a team of Swiss comedy ice skaters who came to the U.S. in 1937 and skated in the Ice Follies, and who appeared in this movie and one other), Irene Dare, Danny Shaw, Eugene Turner, and Ted Fio Rito. Note that Irene Dare was a six year-old ice skating phenomenon from St. Paul, Minnesota, and in 1938, she appeared in an ice skating movie. She followed with another the next year, and then appeared in this, her final role, at the age of 12!

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!).