eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3y081 STAGE DOOR CANTEEN die-cut pressbook '43 Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Kate Hepburn & all-stars! Date Sold 1/17/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 17" x 21" [43 x 53 cm]; 20 pages). Also included is an ad supplement that has 10 pages. (Learn More) Stage Door Canteen (A Soldier's Love Story), the 1943 Frank Borzage United Artists World War II (WWII) all-star romantic musical ("48 STARS plus 6 Name Bands"; "A story of lovetime in wartime!"; "The BIGGEST thing to hit the screen!"; "All rights granted by AMFA Theatre Wing"; in a moment of extreme patriotism, many of the top stars of many different studios appear together in a single "all-star" movie, in order to improve the morale of the troops) starring (in alphabetical order) Judith Anderson, Kenny Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Bellamy, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Ray Bolger, Ina Claire, Katherine Cornell, Jane Cowl, Gracie Fields, Lynn Fontanne, Virginia Grey, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Hersholt, Allen Jenkins, George Jessel, Otto Kruger, Rosemary Lane, Gertrude Lawrence, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alfred Lunt, Aline MacMahon, Elsa Maxwell, Yehudi Menuhin, Ethel Merman, Ralph Morgan, Alan Mowbray, Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Lanny Ross, Martha Scott, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Ned Sparks, William Terry, Ethel Waters, Cheryl Walker, Johnny Weissmuller Arleen Whelan, Ed Wynn, Ruth Roman (uncredited and in her first film), Marjorie Riordan (one of the few non-celebrities in the movie!), Katharine Cornell, and Aline MacMahon, plus "6 Great Bands!" Kay Kyser, Freddy Martin, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo (the popular bandleader of the 1930s who became famous for his yearly rendition of "Auld Lang Sang" every New Year's Eve, as himself in a cameo role). Note that this movie featured 48 stars (plus 6 name bands), and the studio used the number of stars to allow them to advertise the movie as "a star for every star in the flag" (of course, 16 years later, they would no longer be able to use that slogan!). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, 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, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. This extremely large (17" x 21") was folded across the middle. It has a really cool die-cut cover that is a "door" that opens up to show the actual cover of the pressbook. Learn More about condition grades
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