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Auction History Result 5c119 SINGING COWBOY TC '36 Lois Wilde behind Lon Chaney Jr. staring at Gene Autry, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/9/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Singing Cowboy, the 1936 Mack V. Wright singing cowboy western musical starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Champion (Gene's horse), Lois Wilde, Lon Chaney Jr., Ann Gillis, and Earle Hodgins. Note that Gene Autry was the greatest of the "singing cowboys", and that makes posters from this movie all the more desirable, but sadly, the posters from it are incredibly rare! Also note that Lon Chaney Jr. did not like living in the shadow of his ultra successful father, Lon Chaney Sr., and he did not appear in movies during his father's lifetime. After his father passed away in 1930, Chaney started appearing in movies under his real name of Creighton Chaney, without much success. In 1935, a producer convinced him that it would pay off royally if he would change his name to Lon Chaney Jr., and under that name, he starred in this movie! But that did not lead to much better roles until 1939, when he played Lenny in "Of Mice and Men", and received fantastic reviews. But once again, his career did not take off, until he starred in "The Wolf Man" in 1941, and that led to a very successful series of Universal horror movies! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1936 movie paper from this Gene Autry movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single poster from this movie (and only two scene lobby cards and one still) until we received this great title card! There is an odd misprint on the card. The name of the director is Mack Wright, but it ended up on the card as "Mac Wright" (it is surely in the printing, so it is just an odd typo). Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: very good. The card has tiny pinholes in the top corners and smudges and pinholes around the edges of the card in the blank borders, with a tiny tear and tinier paper loss in the top right corner. The card also had two small circular punch holes near the top and bottom of the left blank border. Someone performed the slightest of restoration to the back of the card without backing the card (and they replaced the missing paper from the small circular punch holes in the left blank border), but did not touch up the areas on the front, surely because they are in the blank borders. Other than smudges at top center that very slightly extend into the yellow background and some faint scuffs in the blue background areas, the defects are solely in the blank borders. One could have restoration performed to the border defects, but I would think the vast majority of collectors would prefer to just display this great card as it is. Learn More about condition grades 
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