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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you this week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

This week, I have the pressbook from Why Worry, the 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor silent adventure romantic comedy ("His latest six reel Pathecomedy"; about a hypochondriac who is advised to go to the tropics and take advantage of the fresh air, but he ends up in the middle of a revolution) starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White, and Gaylord Lloyd (Harold's brother!). Gaylord Lloyd greatly resembled his brother Harold, and in 1921, he starred in a series of comedy shorts, but they were not that successful, and he began doubling for his brother and having some bit parts in his brother's movies. Also note that John Aasen was a Norwegian giant who appeared in ten movies between 1923 and 1936, often uncredited. He first appeared as "Colosso" in this movie, and he appeared with the Our Gang kids as a circus giant in "Growing Pains". He died in 1938 at the age of 48. He was advertised as being 8' 9", but this is almost certainly an extreme exaggeration, for it was common at the time to add at least one foot to the height of tall men in circuses, and in 2008, his skeleton was measured and he was discovered to have been 7' 2".

Here are images of the front, back, and interior pages:

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 25,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!).