eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1p074 MIGHTY BARNUM die-cut pressbook 1934 Wallace Beery as legendary circus showman, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/24/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 36 pages) (Learn More) The Mighty Barnum, the 1934 Walter Lang circus carnival biography ("Here's the big show! The heart story of a master showman... his trials and aches... his triumphs and glories."; based on the play by Gene Fowler & Bess Meredyth; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; a highly fictionalized re-telling of the story of the great circus showman, P.T. Barnum, who is reported to have said "There's a sucker born every minute", but he may have appropriated it from a competitor!; near the end of his life, he merged his circus with the Bailey Circus, to for the legendary Barnum & Bailey Circus, which carried on for 146 years until closing in 2017) starring Wallace Beery (in the title role as P.T. Barnum), Adolphe Menjou (as Bailey Walsh), Virginia Bruce, Rochelle Hudson, Janet Beecher, George Brasno (as General Tom Thumb), Olive Brasno (as Lavinia Thumb), R.E. 'Tex' Madsen (as the Cardiff Giant), and May Boley (as the Bearded Lady) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release movie paper from this movie is extremely rare! Not only have we never auctioned this pressbook before, but we have also never auctioned a single first release poster, only lobby cards and stills. Note that this movie was released by 20th Century Pictures just before it merged with Fox in 1935, and because 20th Century Pictures was small, the movie was distributed by United Artists! 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 and it was never folded. Learn More about condition grades
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