New York: Astor Pictures Corp. 1946.
Price: $600.00
Unbound. Folio. [8]pp. Illustrated self-wrappers. 2" horizontal tear at the spine, modest age-toning and very small additional tears, old horizontal fold, overall very good. Film company's press book for a musical comedy with an all-black cast directed by Bud Pollard and featuring comic star Mantan Moreland, Francine Everett, and Monte Hawley. The press book features various suggested advertising copy and illustration of a variety of posters available for promotional purposes. A little known film set in a nightclub with a plot featuring a murder, solved by the club comedian played by Moreland. Apparently most of the film's 40 minute running time was taken up showcasing a variety of nightclub acts. While *OCLC* locates multiple copies of the film and the score, they locate no copies of this pressbook.
Item #396574