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Auction History Result 7h1285 PURSUIT pressbook 1935 Chester Morris, Sally Eilers & Scotty Beckett, includes herald, rare! Date Sold 1/24/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 19 1/2" [36 x 50 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has 2 pages. (Learn More) Pursuit, the 1935 Edwin L. Marin family kidnapping airplane aviation country road travel romantic melodrama ("Pretty girl detective gets her man!"; about a pilot who is hired in the midst of a custody case; the mother wants him to take her child to Mexico from California, so that her relatives can't get their hands on him until the custody case is over, but then the boy is reported kidnapped; the pilot is accompanied by a pretty young woman, and everything works out pretty much the way you think it would, but those who have seen the movie say that it moves well and is enjoyable) starring Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers, and C. Henry Gordon. Note that Scotty Beckett took a break from his Our Gang shorts to appear in this movie. He was super successful as a child actor, and after he had success in "The Jolson Story" and "A Date with Judy" in the late 1940s, it looked like he would make a successful transition to adult roles, but that was not to be. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: 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). Note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald that was included with it, and it is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also 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 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: 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 has staining and smudges on the covers, with some tiny tears and tiny paper loss around the edges. The interior pages are somewhat fragile and have darkened, but are otherwise in pretty nice condition. The tipped-in herald is also in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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