But it would sure be cool to find one without the overprinting that had not
been tampered with!

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Richard C Evans <evan...@mac.com> wrote:

> Personally I'd leave it there.
> Much like the screening details at the top of a window card it's part of
> the history.
>
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>
> On 24 Apr 2012, at 17:49, Jeff Potokar <jpotok...@ca.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting idea.
>
> But if this rumor/legend was true, why would the EAST OF EDEN title have
> been left uncovered on the posters, with only the part which speaks of Dean
> in the present tense, be printed over?
>
> The title is still right there to remind anyone who saw it, about EDEN.
>
> It seems that they covered over the part of the sentence that presents
> Dean in the present, which, of course, was no longer the case, by this
> point in time.
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 9:38 AM, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
>
> However, I have heard from several sources this legend.  It goes like
> this:  EAST OF EDEN was a really racy picture
> in it's day, and was rejected by a lot of southern theaters.
> The overprinting or obscuring was an attempt to take EAST OF EDEN out of
> the minds of the public.
>
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