eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #A520 MALTESE BIPPY pressbook '69 Rowan & Martin Date Sold 3/9/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 12 1/4" x 17"; 12 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 2 pages (Learn More) The Maltese Bippy, the 1969 Norman Panama crime comedy ("Their New Full-Length Movie!"; "Hey Dick, tell the people what our new full-length movie as all about."; "Axel, who is Wesling's accomplice, murders him after he swallows the gems. Ernie and Sam tie up Axel and are feverishly preparing to cut open the corpse, which they find in Axel's room, when Ravenswood bursts in. He is followed by Carlotta who shoots him and is shot in turn by Strauss who is shot by Joanna, a so-called house agent, also looking for the diamonds. She is knifed by Helga, Ravenswood's housekeeper, who is shot by Fenster, a man posing as a buyer for the house. [And that's just the first reel!]"; "Dick, it sure was fun making a flick with you! Well, ring my chimes! I thought we were posing for a center-spread in Playboy!"; "What's a Bippy?"; "A new comedy team in the tradition of Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello and Martin & Lewis.") starring Dan Rowan, Dick Martin (Rowan & Martin, most famous as the hosts of TV's "Laugh In"), Carol Lynley, Julie Newmar, Mildred Natwic, and Fritz Weaver NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Condition: fine. This pressbook is in excellent condition! It is complete and UNCUT, which is unusual, since the purpose of pressbooks was for theaters to cut out one or more of the ads and use them in their local newspapers. It has also never been folded, which is also unusual, as almost all larger pressbooks were folded in half so that they could be more easily transported. I can't imagine a collector who would not be very happy owning this pressbook! Learn More about condition grades
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