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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 Right to Romance, the 1933 Alfred Santell medical doctor plastic surgeon romantic melodrama (about a famous female plastic surgeon who meets a playboy and agrees to give up her profession in order to share his glamorous life, but she learns it is not so glamorous, and leaves him, returning to her medical practice) starring Ann Harding, Robert Young (best remembered as TV's most genial father on "Father Knows Best", but he had an amazingly long movie career before that, beginning with lead roles as early as 1932, and continuing with starring roles throughout the 1930s and 1940s; in 1949, he appeared on the radio show "Father Knows Best", and between that show and its TV version, which appeared from 1954 to 1960, he did virtually no movies; in the 1960s, he mostly did TV guest appearances, and in 1969, he had yet another major success starring as Marcus Welby, M.D. in the TV series of that name, which run until 1976, and he passed away in 1998 at the age of 91!), Nils Asther, Sari Maritza, Irving Pichel and Helen Freeman. Note that Ann Harding is not well remembered today, but she was a major early film feminist of the early 1930s, often playing career women who recognize that they could have had a career of their own, and they could not leave a man to "complete" themselves. In this movie, as in many other of Harding's movies, the makers of the movie felt that the audience could not accept her solely choosing her career over her husband, so they gave her a doctor that she worked with, and the movie ends with her entering into a new romance with him, which softens the meaning of the movie quite a bit.

Here is an image of the front cover and back poster page:

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!).