eMoviePoster.com
Auction History Result 3y0008 CHAINED pressbook 1934 Joan Crawford & Clark Gable in love again, cool cover art, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/14/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13 3/4" x 19 3/4" [35 x 50 cm]; 23 pages). Also included is a supplement that has 4 pages and a herald that has 3 pages. (Learn More) Chained, the 1934 Clarence Brown ocean cruise romantic love triangle melodrama ("When she's in his arms ...it's the grandest thrill the screen can give!"; about a woman who is a mistress of a rich older man, and while on a cruise with him, meets a poor but handsome young man and falls in love, but she is "chained" to the rich man!) starring Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor, and Akim Tamiroff NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Note that MGM, being the foremost studio of the 1930s felt they did not need to create wonderful posters for their movies, because they had so many top stars, so often their 1930s posters have simple artwork against a white background with a duotone photo of the top stars! However, they knew that they needed theater owners to book their movies, so they spent quite a bit more money on their pressbooks, often making them close to window card size, with an exact color recreation of the window card image on the cover of the pressbook, and the posters on the back cover in full color, and often a full-color sample herald, "tipped in" to the inside of one of the covers! However, they economized on the interior on these large pressbooks and used newsprint for the interior pages, which in almost every case has aged greatly and is fragile, if not brittle (see below for the exact condition of this pressbook). Condition: fair to good, WITH CUTS. The interiors of MGM pressbooks from this period were printed on a newsprint that was exactly like what was used in newspapers at that time, and it almost always ages terribly, resulting in incredibly brittle insides. The color covers were printed on a better paper, but they tend to chip around the edges. In addition to the above, there are two ads cut from one interior page that affect over half of that page. Someone either taped the cut out ads back, or they located other ads and taped them in their place. There is also a separated page. However, the covers of the pressbook are in pretty nice condition, as is the tipped-in herald (see our many images). Of course, one would prefer to find a better condition example, but we don't know that another one exists, and if one were located, it might be in the same or lesser condition as this one. Learn More about condition grades 
Postal Mailing Address:
Bruce Hershenson, P.O. Box 874, West Plains, MO 65775. (For our UPS or FedEx address, click here) phone: +1 417 256-9616 fax: +1 417 257-6948 E-mail: Contact Us Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM & 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM (CDT) |
|||||||||||||
