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Auction History Result 4s606 CASABLANCA/G-MEN pressbook 1949 Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman & James Cagney, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/17/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1949 Vintage Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 6 pages) (Learn More) the 1949 double-bill release ("The big stars in their big hits! Twice as thrilling together!") of Casablanca, the classic 1942 Michael Curtiz (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film) anti-Nazi World War II (WWII) romantic love triangle melodrama ("From a play by Murray Burnett and June Alison"; winner of the Best Picture Academy Award; it is interesting to note that the movie was made while World War II was being fought, and at a point when it seemed very real that Germany might take over the entire world, and in that context, the strong emotions expressed throughout the movie are all the more poignant, given what was going on in the world at that time) starring Humphrey Bogart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as "Rick", Richard Blaine), Ingrid Bergman (as Ilsa Lund), Paul Henreid (as Victor Laszlo), Claude Rains (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film; as Captain Renault), Conrad Veidt (as Major Strasser), Sydney Greenstreet (as Signor Ferrari), Peter Lorre (as Ugarte), S.Z. Sakall (as Carl), Dooley Wilson (as Sam), Madeleine LeBeau (as Yvonne), Leonid Kinskey (as Sascha), John Qualen (as Berger), Marcel Dalio (as Emil, the croupier at the roulette wheel), and Corinna Mura (as the cabaret singer who plays the guitar and sings "La Marseillaise")AND G-Men (G Men), the 1935 William Keighley gangster crime melodrama (for the first time, Cagney played "a good guy", a young man who wants to become a "G-Man", or government man, and Warner's wanted to downplay that in its advertising, so they had advertising that was ambiguous as to which side of the law Cagney was on!) starring James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Lloyd Nolan, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue, Regis Toomey, Edwin Maxwell, Russell Hopton, Noel Madison, Ward Bond, and Raymond Hatton NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never auctioned this pressbook before! 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, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle. There are many creases, smudges and scuffs scattered throughout the pressbook, with many small tears around the edges (see our images). Learn More about condition grades 
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