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Auction History Result 1f545 ON THE WATERFRONT/THE CAINE MUTINY pressbook '59 Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart double-bill Date Sold 4/3/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) the 1959 double-bill release ("Two of the greatest films of all time!") of On the Waterfront, the classic 1954 Elia Kazan crime union corruption dockworker melodrama (Best Director & Best Picture Academy Award winner; with a "Screenplay by Budd Schulberg"; since both Schulberg and Kazan "named names" and co-operated with the House Un-American Activities Committee, some consider this movie a defense of informers; I consider it one of the finest movies ever made!; "A story as warm and moving as GOING MY WAY... but with brass knuckles!"; "Screen Play by Budd Schulberg") starring Marlon Brando (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger (all three in their nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award roles!), Pat Henning, and Eva Marie Saint (billed as "Introducing Eva Marie Saint"; in her Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winning role). Note that this one of only two movies that have ever had 3 different actors nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar!AND The Caine Mutiny, the classic 1954 Edward Dmytryk Navy Naval World War II (WWII) military courtroom lawyer legal crime melodrama ("At last on the screen!"; "Based upon the Pulitzer prize-winning novel by Herman Wouk"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about an unstable Naval officer whose eccentric ways cause his crew to hate him, and in a storm, they relieve him of command, and when they return, they are tried for mutiny) starring Humphrey Bogart ("as QUEEG... the Captain and the cause of 'The Caine Mutiny'"; nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Jose Ferrer ("as GREENWALD... who understood the reason for 'The Caine Mutiny'"), Van Johnson ("as MARYK... whose damning diary sparked 'The Caine Mutiny'"), Fred MacMurray ("as KEEFER... the brain who plotted 'The Caine Mutiny'"), Robert Francis (as Ensign Keith), May Wynn (Francis & Wynn billed as "and introducing Robert Francis and May Wynn"), E.G. Marshall, Lee Marvin, and Tom Tully (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role; as Commander DeVreiss, the first Captain of "The Caine") 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 the pressbook, plus an image of a two-page spread from inside of the pressbook (we do NOT picture any supplements or heralds, if there are any included with this pressbook), 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. There are some tiny tears around the edges of the pressbook. Learn More about condition grades 
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