eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 6p792 LE SILENCE EST D'OR pressbook '48 Maurice Chevalier starring in Rene Clair's Man About Town! Date Sold 2/3/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1948 Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 11" x 17" [28 x 43 cm]; 12 pages) (Learn More) Le Silence est d'Or (released in the U.S. in 1948 as "Rene Clair's Man About Town"), the 1947 Rene Clair French/U.S. France romantic love triangle comedy ("Amazing New Film Idea!"; "A story of love in Paris... Enacted in French... Told in English by Maurice Chevalier"; "The Grand Prize winner of the 1947 Brussels world film festival") starring Maurice Chevalier ("'The Man About Town'...as M.C."), Francois Perier, Marcelle Derrien (billed as "introducing Marcelle Derrien"), Dany Robin, and Raymond Cordy. Note that master French director Rene Clair had gotten his start in silent movies in the late 1920s, and he felt that sound and modern inventions were not necessarily an improvement, and he felt tremendous nostalgia for the "good old days" (and also apparently disliked the "French new wave", which was just beginning) and he made this very sentimental movie set in the early 1900s, with Maurice Chevalier playing a silent filmmaker in love with a much younger woman who is herself in love with a young man. The movie was very oddly released in the United States, where, instead of subtitling the movie, the actors still spoke in French, but Chevalier narrated the movie over them, explaining what they were doing! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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 to fine, NO CUTS. Learn More about condition grades
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