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Auction History Result 5c103 HOUSE OF DRACULA TC '45 wonderful images of all the best most classic monsters, 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) House of Dracula, the 1945 Erle C. Kenton Universal vampire monster horror thriller ("All new... All together!"; "Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man, Dracula, Mad Doctor, Hunchback"; the seventh Universal Frankenstein movie, and this was the second "all-star" movie, a sequel of sorts to "House of Frankenstein", with all of its best monsters brought together in a single movie!) starring Lon Chaney Jr. (as Lawrence Talbot/The Wolf Man), Martha O'Driscoll, John Carradine (as Count Dracula), Lionel Atwill, Onslow Stevens (taking over the role of The Mad Doctor from Boris Karloff), Glenn Strange (as Frankenstein's monster, uncredited on the "House of Frankenstein" posters, and credited here, but still not receiving the credit he deserved!), Jane Adams (as the hunchback nurse; oddly, she was sometimes billed by Universal as "Poni Adams"!), and Ludwig Stossel. Note that once again Universal has an extremely politically incorrect "hunchback" as a monster on par with Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Wolf Man, but in "House of Frankenstein", the hunchback was a man, and in this movie, the hunchback is a beautiful woman and a key plot point is that the mad doctor will "make her beautiful" by surgically fixing her hunch back! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned a different example of this title card once, and that was 13 years ago (we previously auctioned this same exact card 7 years ago, and now it has been re-consigned to us by the buyer from that auction, so it is still only the second example of this card we have auctioned. 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: fair. There are many tears, smudges, and stains around the edges of the card. There is a pinhole in the top corners and surface paper loss in the bottom corners where the pins were roughly removed. Some bored teen (who I would love to shoot!) put what appear to be red crayon "X"s on each of the four heads of the stars (each one in a slightly different location, and only covering part of the face). Likely the same person put what appears to be white chalk marks in the same area. There are some faint creases and scuffs scattered in the rest of the card. I don't know how much of the crayon or chalk can be removed chemically, but obviously a talented restorer can certainly remove what of it they can and then perform proper restoration to the card, after which it will look great. But the card does have these clear defects, so please do not bid on this card unless you can accept its defects described above or are willing to pay to have them properly restored! Note that this lobby card is completely unrestored and there is not a single piece of tape on either the front or back of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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