eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1g100 MIDNIGHT SUN pressbook '26 Dimitri Buchowetzki directed Laura La Plante for Universal! Date Sold 9/17/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17 3/4" x 23 3/4" [45 x 60 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) The Midnight Sun, the 1926 Dimitri Buchowetzki silent Russia romantic love triangle melodrama ("A glorious, glamorous, glittering love drama of a Grand Duke and a Dancing Toy"; "A glittering, glamorous love drama of a grand duke and a dancing girl..."; "Set in Russia"; "Based on the Pierre Benoit Novel"; "Universal's magnificent picture from the story by Laurids Braun"; about a beautiful ballerina in pre-Revolution Russia, and a nobleman and a rich banker both love her, but she loves a handsome military cadet, and the cadet tries to save her from the nobleman, and he ends up sentenced to death, and she asks the banker to use his influence to save the cadet, but he tries to seduce her as the price of the rescue, and the nobleman saves her from that and gets the cadet pardoned so she can be with him!) starring Laura la Plante (in the title role as Olga Morova aka The Midnight Sun), Pat O'Malley, Michael Vavitch, Raymond Keane, Earl Metcalf, George Siegmann, and "a great cast of 1500". Note that this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. This very large pressbook is complete and uncut and it is folded across the middle, and had been folded a second time down the center. It has some tears and tiny paper loss down the spine and along the horizontal fold. Learn More about condition grades
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT) |
|||||||||||||
Copyright Notice:
©1998-2024 Bruce Hershenson. All rights reserved.
All materials contained in this document are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without the prior written permission of Bruce Hershenson. You may not alter or remove any trademark, copyright or other notice from copies of the content. However, you may download or print material from this Web site for your personal, non-commercial use only. |