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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 Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, the classic 1952 Cecil B. DeMille (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award) big top circus romantic melodrama ("Academy Award winner 'Best Picture'!"; "Produced with the cooperation of RINGLING BROS.-BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS"; "Mightiest Motion Pictures"; "Story by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, and Frank Cavett"; "Screenplay by Fredric M. Frank, Barre Lyndon and Theodore St. John"; "The Most Dangerous Place In The World...For Lovers To Meet!") starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde (as The Great Sebastian), Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Henry Wilcoxon, Lyle Bettger, Lawrence Tierney, Emmett Kelly (the real-life circus clown, perhaps the most famous one ever, in a cameo role, as himself!), Cucciola, Antoinette Concello, James Stewart (Jimmy Stewart), John Kellogg, John Ridgeley, Frank Wilcox, Bob Carson, Lillian Albertson, Julia Faye, and John Ringling North

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!).