Booth Tarkington PAMPERED YOUTH - 1925 Pressbook - THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS

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PAMPERED YOUTH - Original Pressbook for the 1925 Film- Booth Tarkington THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS Silent Film
Booth Tarkington (novel); David Smith (director); Jay Pilcher (screenwriter); Cullen Landis, Ben Alexander, Alice Calhoun (starring)
Los Angeles, Vitagraph, 1925.  Original pressbook for the 1925 film, the first screen adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons.
The film was recut in 1927 and retitled "Two To One".  Only fragments of the 1927 recut remain and the film is considered lost.  This pressbook may be the most complete surviving artifact from this film.
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington, the second in his Growth trilogy after The Turmoil (1915) and before The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was adapted into the 1925 silent film Pampered Youth. In 1942 it was again made into a movie, this time under its own title, with sound, and to a tightly clipped but effective script by Orson Welles, who also directed. Much later, in 2002, came a TV adaptation based on Welles' screenplay.
17.25" x 24".  Four pages printed in a vintage newspaper style.  Folded as issued from Vitagraph to distributor.  Near Fine, with starting at one of the folds as well as light toning.