[Ads-l] ripped from today's headlines

[Jonathan Lighter]

Cf.:

1937 _Cleveland Plain Dealer_  (June 3) 10: THE LOVE STORY THAT ROCKED THE
FOUNDATIONS OF AN EMPIRE!
So timely it might have been torn from today's headlines!  You thought "San
Francisco" was exciting - but wait! You'll be thrilled to your finger-tips!
... Clark GABLE  Myrna LOY   PARNELL   Starts TOMORROW.

Actually, the headlines about Parnell would have been almost fifty years
old. But that's show biz!

JL

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Formerly an indispensable movie-ad cliche.
>
> Earliest?
>
> 1949 _Seattle Daily Times_ (Dec. 13) 22: Ripped from today's
> headlines...sensational expose' of modern cattle rustling! "Tough
> Assignment" Don Barry  Marjorie Steele  Steve Brodie.
>
> My suspicion is that the phrase first appeared in a movie trailer slightly
> before it showed up in a newspaper.
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>



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