Original Warner Brothers Scene Lobby Card (11×14) for the Michael Curtiz horror thriller, MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) starring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, and Frank McHugh. The story starts out in 1921 in London, where artist Ivan Igor (Atwill) sculpts masterpieces in wax and displays them in a small museum. When his partner starts a fire in the museum to collect the insurance, Igor is knocked out and left in the burning building. Twelve years later, Igor–now confined to a wheelchair with his hands destroyed by the fire—opens a new museum in New York. But a snoopy reporter suspects that he is stealing bodies from the morgue and covering them with wax for the museum. This film was produced before the infamous Production Code. When the film was remade some 20 years later as HOUSE OF WAX (1953), all references to drug use were removed and a character was changed from a junkie to an alcoholic. And if you think the wax figures look like real people, that’s because they ARE real people. The original wax figures they planned to use melted under the heat of the intense lights. This original scene lobby card of Wray, Farrell, and Atwill in his new museum is in near mint condition.

Original Argentinean Reissued One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack monster masterpiece, KING KONG (1933) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, and Bruce Cabot. This film is one of the most influential movies in film history; indeed, every “monster” movie since owes something to KING KONG. When film director Carl Denham (Armstrong) hires unemployed New York actress Ann Darrow (Wray) to star in his new picture, he takes her to the remote Skull Island where, according to legend, there lives an awesome god-like beast named Kong. Ann is kidnapped by the natives and offered as a sacrifice to Kong, but Denham captures Kong and takes him back to America to shamelessly parade him before the amazed masses. Decades ahead of its time, the film is still fascinating today even with all the great achievements in special effects developed since its making. The visual imagery is complemented beautifully by one of the first feature length musical scores by Max Steiner, which conveys Kong’s complex emotional state, especially in the exciting finale atop the Empire State Building. This original linen-backed stone lithograph one sheet is stunningly beautiful and in fine plus condition. Some small tears have been repaired, but no paper is missing. We recommend re-backing the poster.