eMoviePoster.comCool Item Of the Week: The Fountainhead pressbookReturn to Cool Item of the Month Archive Added: 05/28/2012 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 Fountainhead, the 1949 King Vidor romantic philosophical architecture melodrama ("Monumental best-seller! Towering screen triumph!"; "Nobody takes what's mine!"; "A picture to remember from Warner Bros."; "Warner Bros.' Towering Triumph"; the screenplay was written by Ayn Rand herself from her multi-million copy selling philosophical novel; about a dedicated architect who refuses to compromise his principles, regardless of the cost; amazingly, Rand managed to keep much of the essence of her very wordy novel on screen; Rand herself picked Gary Cooper for the lead, and he had a serious affair with his much younger co-star Patricia Neal) starring Gary Cooper (as Howard Roark), Patricia Neal (as Dominique Francon), Raymond Massey (as Gail Wynand), Kent Smith (as Peter Keating), Robert Douglas (as Ellsworth Toohey), Henry Hull (as Henry Cameron), Ray Collins (as Roger Enright), and Jerome Cowan (as Alvah Scarret). Here is an image of the front cover, an inside spread, and inside back cover poster
page, as well as the facing page (oddly, the back page does not have any posters, very unusual for a
pressbook): 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!).
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