GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1939 Alexander Hall Comedy GOOD GIRLS GO TO PARIS, based on the story “Miss Aesop Butters Her Bread” by Lenore J. Coffee & William J. Cowen and starring Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis, Joan Perry and Sam McDaniel.

A waitress, intent on going to Paris, installs herself as part of a rich family, and puts them to rights so well that the eldest son marries her.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold and staple holes.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners.
The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.