eMoviePoster.comCool Item Of the Week: Broadway Bill pressbook front and back coverReturn to Cool Item of the Week Archive Added: 03/28/2011 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 each 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 covers for Broadway Bill, the 1934 Frank Capra horse racing gambling romantic comedy melodrama ("Great Alone - Perfect Together!"; "Two Great Stars in The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'"; "The Comedy Successor to 'It Happened One Night'!"; "Based on the story by Mark Hellinger") starring Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy (amazingly, she made 78 movies between 1925 and 1933, and she FINALLY got her big break when she signed with MGM, and the next year she made both "The Thin Man" and "Manhattan Melodrama", and the rest, as they say, was history!; but what took Hollywood and filmgoers so long to recognize her amazing beauty and talent?), Margaret Hamilton (best remembered for playing "The Wicked Witch" in "The Wizard of Oz"), Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson, and Clarence Muse (a black African-American performer who unfortunately usually was forced to play porters or chauffeurs, usually shuffling, illiterate, and superstitious, thus fitting the standard Hollywood stereotypes of that time). Note that director Frank Capra remade this film in 1950 as the musical "Riding High", in which he actually used many of the same actors so he wouldn't have to reshoot any of the big race scenes, which were reused from this film! See a larger image by clicking on this thumbnail: 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!).
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