eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6x108 BROADWAY hardcover book '29 Dunning & Abbott's novel illustrated with scenes from the movie! Date Sold 5/8/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Vintage Hardcover Book (measures 5 1/4" x 7 3/4" [13 x 20 cm]; 290 pages) (Learn More) Broadway, the 1929 Pal Fejos New York City theater stage acting romantic crime murder musical ("No other picture like it in the world!"; "100% singing and talking"; "100% Talking - Singing - Dancing Picture"; "The one and only Broadway, the greatest of all singing and talking pictures, Broadway, with full dialog from Jed Harris' stage success, Broadway, the first $1,000,000 all talking picture"; "The ONE and ONLY Broadway Universal Super Production"; based on the play by Phillip Dunning & George Abbott; about a naive showgirl who gets involved with bootleggers and murder!) starring Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas Jackson (billed as "E.T. Jackson"), Otis Harlan, Robert Ellis, and Fritz Feld. Note that this is a most unusual movie. The director was Pal Fejos, a Hungarian bacteriologist (!), who had directed movies in Hungary in 1921 to 1923, and somehow he convinced Universal to let him direct a movie for them in 1928, and they apparently liked it enough to give him this movie the following year. The movie was shot in both silent and sound versions, and in black and white and color, and the innovative director did not want it to be like other early sound movies, where the recording equipment restricted them to a stage, and so the opening of the movie has cool outdoor sequences that were filmed with an early camera crane, and because the sound couldn't be recorded outdoors, he dubbed it over the outdoor footage! He directed a number of movies right after this, but had a falling out with Universal in the mid 1930s, and returned to Hungary, where he became a noted anthropologist! Note that a color silent version of this movie survives and also a black and white sound version. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is the first Grosset & Dunlap photoplay edition from 1929 (one of a collection of such books we are auctioning in this set of auctions). Here are some more details about these books: Grosset & Dunlap was a publisher that made a deal with all the studios in the 1910s to publish "movie edition" hardcovers of novels that were currently adapted into movies (there were also some by other publishers, but Grosset & Dunlap printed the lion's share of these). They would re-publish the original novel as the movie came out (or soon after), and they would put a dust jacket on the book that showed the stars of the movie, and they would include several pages of images from the movie scattered in the book. These books were incredibly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The example of this book offered here does not have its dust jacket. Note that we have pictured the front cover, the title page, and the interior page that shows the publishing information, and one or more interior 2-page spreads. Condition: good to very good. See our multiple images to get a good sense of the condition of this book. Learn More about condition grades
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