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Auction History Result 2p061 BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN/MURDER IN THE RUE MORGUE Spook Show jumbo WC '40s great wacky ghost art! Date Sold 11/4/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Spook Show Jumbo Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 20 3/4" x 24") (Learn More) the circa 1940s Spook Show horror theatrical stage show double-bill release ("The ghosts are meeting at midnite"; "Ghosts Free!"; "Affiliated international order of exalted ghosts"; "Spooks, Thrills"; "Frightday nite Dec. 10 about midnite!"; "Greatest spook gathering in History!!!") of The Bride of Frankenstein, the classic 1935 James Whale Universal monster horror thriller (the second of the Universal Frankenstein movies, and the only example I am aware of where a sequel is clearly superior to the original movie!; this is James Whale's masterpiece, and almost everyone agrees it is among the finest movies ever made, regardless of genre; "The Monster Demands a Mate!") starring Boris Karloff (as the Frankenstein monster), Colin Clive (as Dr. Henry Frankenstein), Valerie Hobson (as the bride of Dr. Frankenstein), O.P. Heggie, Ernest Thesiger (as Dr. Pretorius), John Carradine, Dwight Frye and Elsa Lanchester (in the title role as the bride of the Frankenstein monster) AND Murders in the Rue Morgue, the 1932 Robert Florey Universal crime horror mystery thriller (based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe; set in Paris) starring Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames (billed as "Leon Waycoff"), Bert Roach, and Arlene Francis (best remembered as a panelist from TV's "What's My Line?"). Note that this movie is considered the consolation prize for Florey and Lugosi after they were replaced on "Frankenstein" by Universal. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: very good. The card is lightly rippled due to exposure to moisture, which has caused it to have a few light vertical "waves" in the card (they are much more "felt" than seen). Certainly, the card can be displayed and enjoyed exactly as it is, or any talented restorer could make the card wet and then flatten it between sheets of glass, and the light rippling would completely vanish, and the card would lay completely flat. Note that the exposure to moisture did NOT stain the card, although there are some faint smudges around the edges of the card, and some faint darkening in the bottom border. Other than the rippling, the card is in really nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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