eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5m524 ECSTASY set of 2 pressbooks R39 & R53 Hedy Lamarr's early nudie the world is whispering about! Date Sold 3/26/2017Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Set of 2 1939 and 1953 Re-Release Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; the R39 measures 11" x 13 3/4" with 24 pages & the R53 measures 11 3/4" x 17" with 4 pages) (Learn More) Ekstase (released in the U.S. in 1936 as "Ecstasy"), the 1933 Gustav Machaty Austrian/Czechoslovakian romantic melodrama ("Now! It can be shown!"; "The Most Talked of Picture in the World Today!"; "International prize winning motion picture"; "The most whispered about picture in the world..."; "A Bold Story of a Delicate Subject!"; "The Stark Naked Truth of a Woman's Desire for Love!"; "Daring! Revealing! Shocking!"; "Filmed in secrecy!"; "The naked truth of a woman's emotions laid bare!"; "Recommended for adults only!"; "When a woman's love is fulfilled!") starring Hedy Lamarr (billed as "Hedy Kiesler", which was her real name!), Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz, Leopold Kramer, Emil Jerman, and Pierre Nay. Note that Hedy Lamarr had made four previous movies in her native Austria before she appeared nude in this, her fifth movie, and created a worldwide sensation! She married a rich German manufacturer, who attempted to buy up all the prints of the movie, to no avail. In 1937, she divorced her husband and moved to Hollywood, where she was renamed Hedy Lamarr, and she immediately became a major star. She lived a long and eventful life, and entire books can (and have) been filled with her exploits! In 1940, when she was a major Hollywood star, "Ecstasy" was shown throughout the United States, mostly in midnight shows, and it continued to be shown throughout the 1940s and early 1950s in limited releases around the country. Some posters survive from some of those showings, but next-to-no original 1933 posters from any country are known to exist (because we are likely to never have first release posters, we have included the taglines from the re-releases in our description above, which we normally do not do). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this auction is for a set of two different pressbooks that were created for the 1939 and 1953 re-releases of this Hedy Lamarr movie. There is also a 16 page supplement (which mentions "Hollywood's Newest Star Hedy Lamarr") to the 1939 re-release pressbook. Also note that these pressbooks are 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!
UPDATED 03/24/2017: Note that we have updated the auction to incorporate new information. Condition: very good, NO CUTS. All three pressbooks are complete and uncut and one was folded across the middle. Learn More about condition grades
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