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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the 1938 Norman Taurog, George Cukor, & William A. Wellman family adventure thriller ("The perfect picture for everyone who has ever been a kid!"; "Mark Twain's poignant classic of youth...retold on the screen in natural Technicolor by a truly great cast of inspired players. Drop away the years...live again all the precious moments of these adventures that can never grow old!"; "Mark Twain's beloved classic now in Technicolor"; "'Tom, you might even be President some day... if they don't hang you first!'"; "The picture you'll keep next to your heart"; "David O. Selznick who produced David Copperfield and Little Lord Fauntleroy now gives you the best picture of his career Mark Twain's beloved classic"; based on the novel by Mark Twain) starring Tommy Kelly (in the title role; billed as "Introducing Tommy Kelly"; "Meet mischievous, lovable, 12-year old Tommy Kelly, a new star selected from more than 25,000 boys tested for the part of Tom Sawyer."), May Robson ("May Robson as Aunt Polly... long-suffering, short-tempered old soul."), Walter Brennan ("Walter Brennan as Muff Potter, the town sot. New triumphs for this Academy Award Winner"), Victor Jory ("as Injun Joe... all the bad men of the world rolled into one!"), Ann Gillis ("as Becky Thatcher... Tom's fiancee - but he learned about 'women' from Amy"), Jackie Moran ("as Huck Finn...Tom's irrepressible, inseparable side-kick"), David Holt ("as Sid Sawyer...who could have been a reg'lar feller - but just never tried"), Marcia Mae Jones ("as Mary Sawyer...her feet on the ground - her head in the clouds...looking for a rhyme to 'mischief'"), Donald Meek, Margaret Hamilton, and Philip Hurlic
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Important Added Info: Note that this is a set of special educational posters created by the studio to promote this movie. Apparently, this promotion started in 1938, and these sets of posters were sent to libraries by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (apparently, the company that either printed these or distributed these). We imagine the idea was for the library to display these posters around their walls, so that visitors to the library would learn about how movies were made (this set was designed to get kids to read the book before or after they saw the movie, and the posters show behind the scenes images, information that is likely available nowhere else!), and at the same time, it would provide publicity for a current movie! These sets are incredibly rare. In our many years of auctioning, we have only seen a couple of sets offered by anyone. Now, a collection of 17 of these sets that were sent to a Massachusetts library were discovered, and are being offered here, in 17 separate auctions. We doubt we will see even a handful more of these over the next decades, so this is an extremely rare opportunity to purchase these sets. Note that each set comes with the original mailing tube from the company to the library, with either a partial of full mailing label attached to it. We can send that mailing tube to the winner of this auction, if they wish, but that will mean that the set of posters can't be combined with other purchases, so it will be up to the winner of the auction to tell us whether they want us to send the mailing tube with the set. Note: We have 13 images of the items in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 13 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 3.

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