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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 The Age of Consent, the 1932 Gregory LaCava romantic melodrama ("What is virtue? A new generation shouts the answer at 80 miles an hour!") starring Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden, and John Halliday. Prior to this film, Dorothy Wilson was an RKO secretary and among her duties, she worked with director Gregory LaCava. Mr. LaCava had an inclination that Dorothy would be a good actress, so they did a screen test and she exhibited a natural talent for being in front of the camera, and she was cast as the lead in this film! The pressbook even includes a comic strip illustrating her meteoric rise to stardom!

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!).