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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 Gabriel Over the White House, the classic 1933 Gregory La Cava religious political fantasy melodrama (based on the novels by T.F. Tweed; about an angel that transforms a newly inaugurated corrupt president into an idealistic wonderful president who helps the United States out of the Great Depression through bold sweeping changes that no politician has ever done, but only after he dies, and is resurrected by the angel!) starring Walter Huston (as the President), Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, Jean Parker, and David Landau. Note that this was an exceptionally unusual movie, especially to have come from a major Hollywood studio. It is rare that politics, fantasy, and religion cross in a single movie, and this movie had major elements of all three!

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!).