HOLD THAT GHOST

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement for the 1941 Arthur Lubin Horror Comedy HOLD THAT GHOST starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Richard Carlson, Joan Davis, Mischa Auer, Evelyn Ankers and The Andrews Sisters.

Advertisement art by Hicks.

Two nightclub waiters inherit a haunted roadhouse from a bumped-off gangster.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold with 2 staple holes along it.

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. Most were designed to be pulled out. 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.