Paul Robeson (actor) THE PROUD VALLEY [1940] UK pressbook

London: A.B.F.D., [1940]. Vintage original British pressbook, 17 1/2 x 11 1/4″ (44 x 29 cm), 8 pp. Folded (as issued), covers separated but present, with wear around edges and where folded, overall very good-.

The Proud Valley is the last of a series of British films that Paul Robeson starred in. Bogle, Blacks in American Films and Television, pp. 169-170: “In this British film (said to have been Paul Robeson’s favorite among his movies), Robeson stars as an American seaman working in a Welsh coal mine. Robeson’s impressive… dignified, and self-contained.”

As is typical with all British pre-WWII film ephemera, this is an exceedingly scarce booklet (because of wartime paper shortages, most British film materials were recycled during the war).