eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5m918 STREET SCENE pressbook '31 King Vidor classic, Hap Hadley art of Sylvia Sidney & cast, rare! Date Sold 3/26/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 6 pages) (Learn More) Street Scene, the classic 1931 King Vidor New York City problems-of-the-poor romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Pulitzer Prize Drama by Elmer Rice"; a very complicated tale of a New York City tenement, where a middle-aged man shoots his wife's lover, and their beautiful daughter can escape the tenements by becoming the mistress of a well-to-do Jewish store owner, but after her mother is shot by her father, she decides to leave the tenements behind, to find a better life) starring Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi, Greta Granstedt, and Adele Watson. Note that this movie was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play from 1928, but there was a social worker in the play who is very unsympathetic to the poor people she is supposed to help, and pressure was brought on the play's producer Samuel Goldwyn to change the character, and he proposed she become a secret Soviet agent who was planning to blow up the tenement building so that Clarence Darrow would be elected President, and apparently that scared people enough that the character remained similar to how she had been in the original play. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Hap Hadley Important Added Info: Note that the cover of this pressbook has a montage of images of the entire cast from this classic King Vidor movie. The art is signed by Hap Hadley in the lower left, which is very helpful, because the art is quite different from the movie paper art he did in the mid to late 1920s, including the classic three-sheet from Buster Keaton's "The General". 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)! Condition: poor to fair, WITH CUTS. There are two cuts from interior pages. The back cover is missing. The cover has tears around the edges with paper loss in the top right corner. Obviously, one would much prefer to find a better example of this pressbook, but that would be incredibly unlikely! Learn More about condition grades
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