THE GREAT PROFILE (1940) 21358

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Original 20th Century-Fox Midget Window Card (8×14) for the Walter Lang comedy, THE GREAT PROFILE (1940) starring John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne, and Anne Baxter. Barrymore plays a caricature of himself, forcing his movie studio to fire him and tear up his contract. Then to make matters worse, his wife and agent both leave him. Barrymore, who was near the end of his career when this film was made, did not memorize any of his lines; rather, he read them from a blackboard, never missing a cue of muffing a speech. This original midget window card is in very fine plus condition.

MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) 20552

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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.

MAN MADE MONSTER (1941) 20272

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Original Universal Pictures scene card (11×14) for the George Waggner sci-fi/horror thriller, MAN MADE MONSTER (1941)—starring Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel. This low-budget but well-crafted thriller is the story of a mad scientist (Atwill) who turns a man (Chaney) into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding. The film was originally intended for Universal’s two reigning horror icons—Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi—but was given instead to Atwill and Chaney, Jr. (in his first Universal horror role). Really great condition on this scene card– very fine to near mint.

MAN MADE MONSTER (1941) 16324

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Original Universal Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the George Waggner science fiction/horror thriller, MAN MADE MONSTER (1941) starring Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., and Anne Nagel. This low-budget but well-crafted thriller is the story of a mad scientist (Atwill) who turns a man (Chaney) into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding. The film was originally intended for Universal’s two reigning horror icons (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) but was given instead to Atwill and Chaney (in his first Universal horror role). This original one sheet poster is linen-backed and in very good plus condition. There is some minor damage to the linen backing on the left border and minor touch-up to the fold lines.

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