eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6x488 CITY FOR CONQUEST/NO TIME FOR COMEDY pressbook '46 James Cagney & James Stewart double-bill! Date Sold 5/8/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 10 pages) (Learn More) the 1946 double-bill release ("It's Jimmy and it's Jimmy in Two Terrific Hits!") of City for Conquest, the classic 1940 Anatole Litvak New York City boxing sports family relationship brothers gambling romantic melodrama ("a story with all the fire and fury of its two great stars!": "From the novel by Aben Kandel"; in a twist on the usual plot of a musician-turned-boxer to raise money, in this movie, Cagney is boxing to help his musician brother, with tragic results; one of Cagney's best roles ever; look for director Elia Kazan and a very young Anthony Quinn in very strong supporting performances!) starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Jerome Cowan, Elia Kazan (the famous director in an early acting role!), Anthony Quinn, and Blanche Yurka AND No Time for Comedy, the 1940 William Keighley romantic comedy ("Just can't make his smile behave!!"; "Can't make her Jimmy behave!!"; "There's something very funny going on here!"; "There was a shy fellow named James who knew nothing at all about dames till he met a Miss Russell... and after a tussle... he learned about women [he claims!]"; from the stage play by S.N. Behrman, with a screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein) starring James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), Rosalind Russell, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Allyn Joslyn, Clarence Kolb, and Louise Beavers. It seems very unusual to see James Stewart in a Warner Bros. movie, and it is! MGM loaned Stewart to Warner Bros. for this single movie! 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: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It is folded across the middle, but otherwise, it is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades
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