eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1y864 LOVE HAPPY pressbook '49 Marx Brothers, sexy Marilyn Monroe & more in musical Girlesque! Date Sold 8/18/2013Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 20 3/4" [36 x 53 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Love Happy, the 1949 David Miller musical screwball comedy ("New Musical Girlesque!!!"; "Their Newest! Funniest! Musical!") starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, and Harpo), Ilona Massey ("Screendom's most beautiful blonde!"), Vera-Ellen ("Thrills in the torrid 'Sadie Thompson' dance!"), Marion Hutton ("She swings with the strings of your heart!"), Raymond Burr, Melville Cooper, Leon Belasco, Paul Valentine, Eric Blore, Bruce Gordon, Otto Waldis, and Marilyn Monroe (in only her second credited movie role!). What is remarkable is that the people who designed the posters put pictures of three pretty girls on them, but did not manage to make Marilyn Monroe one of them, surely a major blunder. She WAS pictured on one of the lobby cards, but that seems to have been almost by chance! I know this was because she was unknown at the time, but I would think they would have recognized her obvious assets! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have previously sold another example of a Love Happy pressbook, and that one was identical to this one EXCEPT that it had color covers! We feel certain that this pressbook can't be a re-release, because surely Marilyn Monroe would have been prominently mentioned at any point after 1949 (she is pictured four times in this pressbook, but in a pretty minor way), so we think it is more likely that this is simply an alternate version of the pressbook (perhaps created to be sent to less important theaters). 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)! Condition: good, WITH CUTS. The pressbook is folded across the middle and there is minor wear on the covers. Learn More about condition grades
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