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3y049 WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD pressbook '33 Frankie Darro, William Wellman Depression era classic!

Date Sold 1/5/2016
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17 1/4" [28 x 44 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More)

Wild Boys of the Road, the classic 1933 William A. Wellman Depression era juvenile crime melodrama (about a giant problem of The Great Depression, where teen children of poor people would leave home to try to make it on their own, and they would end up roaming the countryside in gangs, often forced to steal to stay alive, and of course, also having to fend off predators of all sorts) starring Frankie Darro, Dorothy Coonan Wellman (billed as "Dorothy Coonan"), Rochelle Hudson, Edwin Phillips, Ann Hovey, Arthur Hohl, Sterling Holloway, Ward Bond, Alan Hale Jr. (uncredited in his first film), and Guy Kibbee. Note that this is a really wonderful pre-Code movie which showed the harsh realities of the effects of The Great Depression on children, made at the height of the Depression. Director Wellman had personal knowledge of the subject, because his mother was a probation officer in Massachusetts, and it is an extremely "hard hitting" movie that does not sugar coat its sensitive subject (which includes a lead female character, who disguises herself as a boy, and she has to fend off a would-be rapist). Note that one of the "Wild Boys" is actually a girl posing as a boy, and she is played by Dorothy Coonan, a 20 year old actress, who would marry the 17 year older director William Wellman the following year, and become Dorothy Coonan Wellman. She was his fifth wife, and he was only 37 years old at the time, but he credits her with "having rescued him", and they remained married until his passing in 1975, having had 7 children together (and he had one other child from one of those past 4 wives).
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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 to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut and was never folded. The pressbook had separation, tiny tears, and tiny bits of paper loss on the spine of the cover, and someone put clear tape down the entire spine. There is pen writing at the top of the front cover, with the names of the stars next to their images in the inset circle of the cover. Otherwise, the pressbook is in pretty nice condition!
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