eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result #3118 IMITATION OF LIFE Realart pbR40sColbert Date Sold 9/2/2003Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. R40s Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (measures 11" x 17"; 4 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 1 page (measures 10" x 16"). (Learn More) Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life, the 1934 John M. Stahl passing-for-white romantic tearjerker melodrama (nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the novel by Fannie Hurst) starring Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Louise Beavers (one of the first black African Americans to achieve success in mainstream Hollywood movies), Rochelle Hudson, Ned Sparks, Henry Armetta, Baby Jane, Alan Hale Sr., Fredi Washington (a very light-skinned, very talented black African American actress who refused to try to "pass for white", and who appeared in several important black related movies including "The Emperor Jones" and "Black and Tan"; ironically, she had to have her skin darkened, so she could "pass for black"!), Marilyn Knowlden, and Juanita Quigley. Note that this movie was re-made in 1959 by Ross Hunter and Douglas Sirk with Lana Turner in the lead role! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. We are also selling a pressbook from the 1930s Universal re-release elsewhere on eBay this week. Condition: very good. folded in half twice; most of the spine is separated; a few 3/4" and smaller tears along the spine and around the edges of the pressbook; scuffing, minor creases, and smudges throughout the pressbook (more so along the foldlines and around the edges) Learn More about condition grades
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