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Auction History Result 3f0303 HIDE-OUT pressbook 1934 gangster Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Patterson, very rare! Date Sold 11/22/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 20" [36 x 51 cm]; 18 pages) (Learn More) Hide-Out, the 1934 W.S. Van Dyke romantic crime melodrama ("It's merrier than 'The Thin Man!'"; about a gangster who is shot and who hides out at a farm, where they don't know that he is a gangster, and then he falls for the farmer's beautiful daughter, and he wants to go straight, but how?) starring Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson, and Whitford Kane NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of 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). 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. However, 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. Learn More about condition grades 
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