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Kathy Simmonds, Marilyn Rickard, Judy Huxtable, and Ester Anderson pose for picture during publicity tour for the film 'The Touchables', 1968💐🌷🌹

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Interesting Find of the Week #2: A pressbook for A Warm December (1973), starring Sydney Poitier as an African-American doctor and Ester Anderson as the daughter of an African ambassador.

Pressbooks were sent to movie theaters by distributors with material used for advertising, publicity, and exploitation, and were heavily used between the 1930s and 1980s. (Now, of course, they're mostly digital.) While most pressbooks had posters, newspaper advertisements, and ideas for tie-in events (image 2), the pressbook for A Warm December included a "Fashion Mat" insert to promote the clothing Anderson's character Catherine wore (image 3). The outfits were designed by Thea Porter, Zandra Rhodes, and Alexander McGee. The back cover of the pressbook (image 4) reads:

Thea Porter, Alexander McGee, and Zandra Rhoses are three of the top fashion designers now selling in America. Most of the important department stores sell their clothes and Esther Anderson wears their creations in "A Warm December." Arrange with the local store to do window displays of their lines and give credit to the fact that they dressed Sidney Poitier's leading lady in "A War December." Other outlets for local promotions include: Men's Fashions (Poitier is one of the best dressed stars around), Cameras, Motorcycles and Travel Agencies and Airlines (especially Pan Am which is featured importantly in the film).

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

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'The Touchables' cast, UK, 1968 

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Kathy Simmonds, Marilyn Rickard, Judy Huxtable, and Ester Anderson pose for picture during publicity tour for the film The Touchables, 1968.

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What you want from us, we can't give you, cos we haven't got it... And don't take off your troubles on us, baby, cos we've got our own. Nobody's going to teach you how to be simple and happy– we ain't simple and we ain't happy. We've been living in this world as long as you have.

Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969), dir. Ted Kotcheff

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Ester Anderson, actress

Anderson was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is an actress and writer, known for A Warm December (1973), Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) and One More Time (1970).

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The Touchables, 1968 Director: Robert Freeman