The caricatures in the first ad are terrific. Beery, Keaton, Garbo, Brown, Chaplin, Cantor, Arliss, Groucho, Hardy and Durante; other than Beery, I think they were all caricatured in animated cartoons about this time.
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Interestingly, Walt Disney’s name isn’t on all the ads. I suspect the Disney studio wouldn’t omit its name from publicity material today.
Yowp, the celebrity caricatures image was lifted directly from "Mickey's Gala Premiere" (1933).
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