eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 7d445 LUMMOX pressbook '30 Winifred Westover, from the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst! Date Sold 12/25/2011Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 1 page. Also included is a herald that has 3 pages (Learn More) Lummox, the 1930 Herbert Brenon romantic family relationship melodrama ("Herbert Brenon's Supreme 100% ALL TALKING PICTURE"; "with an All-Star Cast"; "from the best seller by Fannie Hurst"; a real tearjerker, about an uneducated serving girl who is called "Lummox" because she hardly speaks, and she is used and abused by her wealthy employers, including being seduced by the son of a wealthy family; she gives up the resulting son for adoption, and nothing ever works out for her, and finally, she is fired unfairly many years later, and the film ends with her hearing a piano recital from the son she gave up decades ago, but they don't meet) starring Winifred Westover, Dorothy Janis, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ida Darling, and Ben Lyon NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also 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. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this 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 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 is somewhat fragile and has tiny tears and a few extremely tiny areas of paper loss around the edges. There are two pieces of orange tape on the front and back cover that were once used to keep the pressbook together when it was mailed to the theater. Learn More about condition grades
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