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Auction History Result 2s638 MUMMY commercial 8.5x10 still '40s incredible portrait of Boris Karloff by Irving Klaw! Date Sold 11/15/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Undated (probably 1940s) Vintage Irving Klaw Commercial 8 1/2" x 10" [22 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Mummy, the classic 1932 Karl Freund Universal Ancient Egypt romantic monster horror thriller ("It comes to life!"; "The most amazing make-up ever achieved"; "Story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer") starring Boris Karloff ("The Uncanny"; in the title role as Imhotep the Mummy), Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Arthur Byron, Bramwell Fletcher, and Noble Johnson (as The Nubian) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that Irving Klaw was a legendary figure in Hollywood photography! He was born in New York City, and his family owned a business which is known today as Movie Star News. He started in 1939 with used books, and in the 1940s, he began selling movie star photos, which sold so well that he gave up selling books, and concentrated on the photos. In the late 1940s, he discovered that selling images of sexy women in erotic poses (especially "bound" fetish poses) outsold the Hollywood photos, and he wanted to specialize in them, but he could not find enough of them to satisfy his customers. So his sister and he began taking photos of burlesque dancers (and his most famous model was Bettie Page), and he also got involved in publishing illustrated bondage books and even produced some burlesque movies. The Kefauver Hearings (like the ones that ended horror comics in the early 1950s) also did in Klaw's business. He continued his business in a much smaller fashion, and made a couple more movies, before he passed away in 1966. This still was sold by Klaw in the 1940s (before he switched to sexy women!) and it has "IRVING KLAW PHOTO SERVICE" in the lower right corner. Also note that this still measures 8 1/2" x 10" [22 x 25 cm]. Condition: very good to fine. The still is in very nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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