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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 each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from High, Wide, and Handsome, the 1937 Rouben Mamoulian traveling medicine show romantic musical ("By Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, Creators of 'Show Boat'"; "Immortal Music!"; "The Big Show is here!"; "The most glorious musical romance of the year!"; set in 1870s Pennsylvania; about the owner of a traveling medicine show and his beautiful daughter who are stranded in a town, and a local prominent family takes them in, and the son of that family falls in love with the medicine show man's daughter) starring Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour (23 years-old in this role!), Akim Tamiroff, Raymond Walburn, Ben Blue, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Patterson, and William Frawley

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior spread:

 
  

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).