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Auction History Result 1a862 OH BABY pressbook '26 Madge Kennedy, Little Billy, boxing comedy with a great fight climax! Date Sold 9/6/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17 3/4" x 23" [45 x 58 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Oh, Baby!, the 1926 Harley Knoles silent New York City Prohibition boxing sports cross-dressing mistaken identity screwball comedy ("The Laugh Hit of New York"; a really wild and zany story about a prizefighter whose manager is a little person, and a friend of his has a relative visiting who thinks he has a wife and daughter, and he convinces the manager to wear girl's clothes and pretend to be his "daughter", and he agrees, but during the impersonation, he must go to Madison Square Garden dressed as a young girl, and go to ringside and help his fighter win the big fight!) starring Madge Kennedy, 'Little Billy' Rhodes (billed as "Little Billy"), Creighton Hale, David Butler, Ethel Shannon, Flora Finch, Damon Runyon, "and a big cast of Broadway celebrities" (which referred to then-famous sports journalist figures, who played themselves, including Grantland Rice, Jimmy Cannon, Ring Lardner, and Graham McNamee). Note that 'Little Billy' Rhodes was a "little person" who started in movies at the age of 31. He appeared in many of the most important movies that little people appeared in, including The Terror of Tiny Town, The Wizard of Oz, The Court Jester, and many circus related movies that required little people. He had a long career, starting with "Oh, Baby!" in 1926, and finishing with a role in 1966, 40 years later! He passed away the following year. Note that it is also interesting that this wacky movie (which seems clearly to be the inspiration for Damon Runyon's "Lady for a Day", which he wrote three years after this movie, which he had a cameo role in) was written by Arthur Hoerl, who is completely forgotten today, but who wrote screenplays for an astounding 150 movies between 1921 and 1968, but most were in the 1920s and 1930s (he is best remembered for scripting the "classic" 1936 movie "Tell Your Children", which is now known as "Reefer Madness"). Also, 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 to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook was folded like a one-sheet, and there are some tiny separations at the ends of some of those folds. Otherwise, the pressbook is in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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