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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 this 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 Abie's Irish Rose, the 1928 Victor Fleming romantic newlyweds-of-different-religions-and-their-subsequent-difficulties melodrama ("Now! It's on the screen"; based on the classic Anne Nichols play about a Jewish man who marries an Irish girl) starring Jean Hersholt (as Solomon Levy), Charles 'Buddy' Rogers (in the title role as Abie Levy), Nancy Carroll (in the title role as Rosemary Murphy), J. Farrell MacDonald (as Patrick Murphy), Bernard Gorcey (as Isaac Cohen, which he had played in the Broadway stage version; much later famous as "Louie" in the "Bowery Boys" movies, starring his son Leo Gorcey!), Ida Kramer, Thelma Todd, and Camillus Pretal (as Rabbi Jacob Samuels). Note that Bernard Gorcey was star Leo Gorcey's father, and he played Louie, the owner of the Sweet Shop, where the boys frequently hung out, and Louie was often involved in slapstick gags, and many times Leo Gorcey would be tormenting or slapping his own father!

Here are images of the front, back, and interior pages:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!).