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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!

So below is the pressbook from 3 Women, the 1924 Ernst Lubitsch silent romantic love quadrangle melodrama ("When three women love one man - all rules of the game are discarded - a game in which all are losers."; "The eternal triangle-with an extra and unusual angle"; "False flattery masquerades as love"; "When three women want one man - something happens"; "With one woman's kisses still warm on his lips he turned to another - with still another waiting and watching"; "A love conflict between mother and daughter while 'the other woman' watches and waits."; a truly bizarre story of a man with no morals, who has a mistress, but he also has lots of debts, so he starts an affair with a wealthy widow, but he is really after her daughter!; he marries the widow, while actively pursuing her daughter and keeping on with his affair with his mistress; the widow finds out about her husband's attraction to her daughter, and she kills him, and is acquitted at trial, when the facts come out!) starring May McAvoy ("The Daughter"), Marie Prevost ("The Other Woman"), Pauline Frederick ("The Mother"), Lew Cody ("The Man"), "and a remarkable support cast including", Willard Louis, Mary Carr, and Pierre Gendron. One wonders whether Vladimir Nabokov saw this movie, and whether the odd triangle between the husband, wife, and her daughter was in any way inspiration for his novel, "Lolita"!

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior 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!).