[Hollywood] Lake, Veronica. (1922 - 1973) & Sturges, Preston. (1898 - 1959)
Original 1941 Press Book for "Sullivan's Travels."
Very rare original vintage oversize 1941 pressbook for the Preston Sturges film starring Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea, "Sullivan's Travels." 30 pp. including images of all of posters available for theaters to order, advertisements for press reproduction, facts about the film etc. Veronica Lake is featured on the cover, with inset smaller images advertising a bus route of "Dangerous Curves" and "Soft Shoulders." Edges worn, covers separated and disbound. One of the rarest of 1940's pressbooks.Sullivan's Travels (1941) is generally considered one of celebrated writer/director Preston Sturges' greatest dramatic comedies - and a satirical statement of his own director's creed. One of his more interesting and intelligent films from a repertoire of about twelve films in his entire career, Sturges' Sullivan's Travels satirizes Hollywood pretension and excesses with his particular brand of sophisticated verbal wit and dialogue, satire and fast-paced slapstick. Sturges was one of the first scriptwriters in the sound era to direct his own screenplays. (7826)
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