eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5z440 BIG PARTY pressbook '30 pretty Sue Carol & Dixie Lee were good for nothing but love! Date Sold 2/16/2014Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 19" [30 x 48 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) The Big Party, the 1930 John G. Blystone pre-Code musical romantic love triangle comedy ("Good for nothing but love"; "A movietone melodydrama [sic]"; "Story and dialog by Harlan Thompson"; about a pretty girl who works first as a "singing sales clerk" and then in an expensive dress shop, and she meets rich men and ditches her simple boyfriend, but just in time, she realizes that she has made a terrible mistake) starring Sue Carol, Dixie Lee, Walter Catlett, Frank Albertson, Richard Keene, and 'Whispering' Jack Smith. Note that William Fox was the only major studio owner who thought there was still a future for silent movies as late as 1930, and he continued to make both silent and sound versions of all his movies, figuring that he would have a monopoly on the theaters that had not added sound equipment. What he did not realize is that EVERY theater would soon convert to sound, rendering his silent versions worthless, and helping push his company into bankruptcy. What is especially humorous is that this movie, which was a musical, was made in a "silent" version! Finally, note that sixth billed "Whispering" Jack Smith was a popular singer of the 1920s and 1930s, who was known as "The Whispering Baritone". According to the IMDb: "His distinctive 'whispering' vocal delivery, for which he became famous, was caused when he fell victim to a poison gas attack during World War I. His voice never fully recovered and, unable to sing at full volume, he instead learned to make the best use of early microphone technology to record his soft vocal style". Note that this is a "lost" film, which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. 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 this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), 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, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. However, the pages are fragile and someone put some clear tape on the spine and around part of the edges of the covers. Learn More about condition grades
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