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Auction History Result 4b170 CARL LAEMMLE SR/CARL LAEMMLE JR 8x10 still '20s portrait of the founder & heir of Universal! Date Sold 9/27/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Carl Laemmle Sr., who founded Universal Pictures in 1915, and was responsible for the many of the great successes that studio had in the 1920s. He brought his son, Carl Laemmle Jr., into the business, and by the 1930s, his son gained control of the studio AND Carl Laemmle Jr. was a producer in the 1920s and 1930s. His father, Carl Laemmle Sr., had founded the studio in the early 1910s, and in 1928, he passed control of Universal Pictures to him (he became head of production), and he produced many of Universal's greatest movies including: All Quiet on the Western Front, and their most legendary horror movies, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and The Bride of Frankenstein. But he spent too much money on too many movies, and the studio was in rocky financial shape, and in the mid 1930s, the board of directors forced both father and son out of the studio, and neither made another movie (although Junior lived another 43 years)! Important Added Info: Note that this great portrait would seem to date from around 1928 or 1929, and certainly it was taken during happy times when the father and son got along well. If anyone knows exactly when this still is from, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. There is staining and surface paper loss in the right of the bottom border, and the still is lightly rippled across the bottom, caused by the snipe glued to the back, but it is otherwise in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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