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Auction History Result 5c0430 RENDEZVOUS pressbook 1935 William Powell, Rosalind Russell, includes tipped-in color herald! Date Sold 7/23/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 20" [35 x 51 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) Rendezvous, the 1935 William K. Howard & Sam Wood World War I (WWI) spy espionage code-breaking romantic love triangle comedy ("3,000 men sentenced to death by a woman's beauty!"; "Every merry moment packed with thrills!"; about a soldier in World War I who is an expert in breaking codes, so he is assigned to the intelligence department, where he falls in love with the beautiful young niece of the commander, and he also gets entangled with a beautiful Russian spy!) starring William Powell, Rosalind Russell ("introducing his new screen sweetheart, ...gorgeous Rosalind Russell!"), Binnie Barnes, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Samuel S. Hinds, and Henry Stephenson. Note that this was Rosalind Russell's second year of making movies, and she had appeared in minor roles in quite a few, but this was a much better role for her! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Condition: fair to good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. This particular pressbook was folded across the middle and there are tears and tiny paper loss around the edges and along the fold. Learn More about condition grades 
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