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Auction History Result 3m201 BEAU BRUMMELL French pressbook 1955 sexy Elizabeth Taylor & Stewart Granger, posters shown! Date Sold 1/27/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1955 (from the first release of this movie in France) Vintage Theatrical French Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 8 1/2" x 12" [22 x 30 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Beau Brummell (and the Beauty!), the 1954 Curtis Bernhardt English/U.S. historical royalty romantic melodrama ("To the gallery of great motion pictures MGM brings 'Beau Brummell' and The Beauty!"; "Soldier, Poet, Adventurer, Rogue, Gambler, LOVER!"; "Millions know his name, but this is the flesh-and-blood man soldier, poet, adventurer, rogue, gambler, LOVER!"; "Here was a man with a lust for life... A man who was a ... Soldier ... Lover ... Gambler ... Adventurer ... Fascinating to all women yet faithful in his fashion only to one ... The lady who feared to share his storm-tossed destiny!"; "In gorgeous color!"; "Based On the Play Written for Richard Mansfield by Clyde Fitch"; set in the early 1800s, loosely based on the life of George Bryan Brummell, who was a soldier with a modest inheritance, but he became the favorite of the Prince of Wales, and he rose in English society; he was famous for his stylish fashion sense and his great wit; but it went to his head, and he gambled himself deep into debt, and he fell out of favor with the prince, eventually forced into debtor's prison before dying in a French asylum from syphilis!) starring Stewart Granger (in the title role as Beau Brummell), Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov (as the Prince of Wales), Robert Morley (as King George III), and James Donald NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, unlike later French pressbooks, this French pressbook is much like a U.S. pressbook and DOES include poster images. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this French pressbook, 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 French pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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