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Auction History Result 2k112 UNDERWATER pressbook 1955 Howard Hughes, sexiest artwork of skin diver Jane Russell! Date Sold 12/26/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 14" x 18" [36 x 46 cm]; 32 pages). Also included are 2 ad supplements that have 2 pages each, and also a tipped-in herald that has 3 pages. (Learn More) Underwater!, the 1955 John Sturges aquatic scuba diving swimming romantic adventure thriller ("Skin Diver Action..."; "Aqua-lung Thrills!"; "Jane Russell as you've never seen her before!"; "Underwater Fury in that new, exciting underwater world!"; "Come On Below to that new, exciting Underwater World... With Jane Russell as you've never seen her before! It took 3 years to make... Cost $3,000,000!"; "The new anamorphic process Superscope on the giant wide screen"; produced by Howard Hughes) starring Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Richard Egan, Lori Nelson, and Robert Keith NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Feg Murray Important Added Info: Note that Howard Hughes went all out with this pressbook, making it a very large 14" x 18", with full-color covers, and also full-color inside front and back covers showing many posters. In addition, one of the interior pages that has more posters in black & white has a full-color tipped-in herald (see our image). 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 which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. 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)! Condition: good, WITH CUTS. Pages 17, 18, 19, and 20, the center four pages, have several cuts, and what remains of those four pages are loose in the center of the pressbook (only newspaper articles are affected). Otherwise, the pressbook was lightly partially folded down the middle. The full-color pages are in pretty nice condition, and the tipped-in herald is in nice condition, and the pages that do not have cuts are in pretty nice condition. We leave it to bidders to decide how important it is that there are cuts in those middle four pages. Learn More about condition grades 
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