eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5c0352 ABSOLUTE QUIET pressbook 1936 Louis Hayward, Irene Hervey, color poster images, ultra rare! Date Sold 7/23/2020Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 19 3/4" [36 x 50 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) Absolute Quiet, the 1936 George B. Seitz romantic love triangle comedy ("It's fun to be thrilled!"; from the story by George F. Worts; a wacky story of a rich businessman who is on the verge of a nervous breakdown from overwork, and he goes to his ranch to rest, but his female assistant makes a play for him, and a plane crash lands at the ranch and it is filled with his enemies and people who have it in for him!) starring Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey, Raymond Walburn, Stuart Erwin, Ann Loring, Louis Hayward, and Wallace Ford NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this pressbook! Also 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 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: fair to 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. This particular pressbook was folded across the middle and there are some tears and tiny paper loss around the edges. Learn More about condition grades
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