eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 9d614 RHAPSODY IN BLUE pressbook R56 Robert Alda as George Gershwin, Al Jolson pictured! Date Sold 8/2/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1956 Re-Release Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Rhapsody in Blue, the 1945 Irving Rapper musical biographical melodrama ("Warner's crowning glory!"; "The Jubilant Story of George Gershwin"; "Dances created and directed by Le Roy Prinz"; about famed music composer George Gershwin) starring Robert Alda ("as George Gershwin"), Joan Leslie ("as Julie Adams"), Alexis Smith ("as Christine Gilbert"), Charles Coburn ("as Max Dreyfus"), Julie Bishop ("as Lee Gershwin"), Albert Basserman ("as Professor Frank"), Morris Carnovsky, Rosemary De Camp ("as Mrs. Gershwin"), Herbert Rudley ("as Ira Gershwin"), Eddie Marr ("as Buddy De Sylva"), Oscar Loraine ("as Ravel"), Ernest Bolm ("as Otto Kahn"), Martin Noble ("as Jascha Heifetz"), and Hugo Kirchhoffer ("as Walter Damrasch"), and "as themselves" nine famous stars of the period in cameo roles, including Al Jolson, Oscar Levant, Paul Whiteman, George White, Hazel Scott, Anne Brown, Tom Patricola, "and The Warner Choral Singers" 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 to fine, NO CUTS. Learn More about condition grades
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