*PARAMOUNT PICTURES 75TH ANNIVERSARY Presskit With 23 8x10 Photos & Releases

Description

Vintage original 9 x 11.75 in. 2-pocket presskit
issued for the celebration of
PARAMOUNT 75TH ANNIVERSARY
. Issued in 1987 to celebrate the famous motion picture studio's 75th anniversary, it consists of one two-pocket folder with the studio's famous logon on the front and back covers with "75th Anniversary" on the front cover. It opens to reveal two interior pockets, the left of which contains a 17-page "Paramount History" printed on buff stock as well as a 5.5 x 8.5 in. postcard with the same studio logo on the front.
The second pocket contains 23 8x10 photographs from the US import of the French production of
Queen Elizabeth
(1912), starring Sarah Bernhardt (which studio co-founder Adolph Zukor exhibited in the US) through the studio's then present-day releases.
Also included are 8 (eight) two- or three-page 8.5 x 11 in. sheets about various Paramount successes, which include
:
Blood and Sand
(1922), with Rudolph Valentino;
It
(1927), with Clara Bow;
Morocco
(1930) with Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich;
Trouble in Paradise
(1932), directed by Ernst Lubitsch;
She Done Him Wrong
(1933), with Mae West;
Duck Soup
(1933) with the Marx Brothers;
Midnight
(1939) with Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche; and Billy Wilder's
Double Indemnity
, with Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck.
The 23 8x10 photos include
:
Queen Elizabeth
(1912), with Sarah Bernhardt; The Birth of Paramount (Sept. 1916); The Marx Brothers (1929);
The Blue Angel
(1930), with Marlene Dietrich; Behind-the-scenes on the set of
She Done Him Wrong
(1933), with the script girl, Cary Grant, Mae West, and William LeBaron;
It's a Gift
(1933) with W.C. Fields; Behind the scenes at Paramount with Carole Lombard, Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, and Richard Barthelmess; Behind the scenes on
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
(1938), with Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, and director Ernst Lubitsch;
Sullivan's Travels
(1941) with Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake; Going My Way (1944), with Bing Crosby, Frank McHugh, and Barry Fitzgerald; two photos from Sunset Boulevard (1950) with Gloria Swanson; Paramount's classic comedy teams, which includes
The Road to Bali
(1952) and
Jumping Jacks
(1952); Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956) with Charlton Heston and Yul Brenner; director Alfred Hitchcock holding a clapboard from
Psycho
(1960);
Breakfast at Tiffany's
(1961) with Audrey Hepburn; Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) with Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, and John Cazale; and 6 8x10s featuring a collage from various Paramount hits.
This 75th Anniversary presskit is complete in very fine condition.