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Auction History Result 6p0788 PUBLIC MENACE pressbook 1935 Public Enemy No. 1 is scared of smoking Jean Arthur, very rare! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 17 3/4" [30 x 45 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) The Public Menace, the 1935 Erle C. Kenton romantic murder mystery melodrama ("The police want her to talk! Public Enemy No. 1 wants to silence her... forever!"; "Girl trails killer! The hunt is on for - The Public Menace"; "Even Public Enemy No. 1 is scared of her!"; a strange story of a Greek woman on a cruise ship who meets a reporter, and she asks him to marry her, so she can stay in the U.S., but he reasonably asks her why he should do it, and she tells him she has a great tip on a gangster, and the reporter marries her and the story is printed, but it turns out she made up the story, so the reporter is fired, and then she tries to make it up to him) starring Jean Arthur (as the Greek woman!), George Murphy, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay, and Robert Middlemass. Note that reviews of this movie indicate that it starts out as a sort of screwball romantic comedy, and then veers into melodrama, and that it doesn't succeed well at either. The following year, Jean Arthur would make a similar movie, called "The Whole Town's Talking", with Edward G. Robinson, and that veered between comedy and crime melodrama, and did so very successfully! Perhaps part of the reason this movie doesn't work well is that it started out as "Lady Beware" in 1934, with Miriam Hopkins in it in addition to Jean Arthur and George Murphy, and apparently her part was either re-cast or cut out, and then in 1935 it was re-titled to "Lady of New York" and no doubt the movie was changed quite a bit as well, and later in 1935, it finally became "Public Menace"! If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also 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 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. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. There are some faint smudges and stains on parts of the covers. Otherwise, the pressbook is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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