eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result k084 MAGICIAN 8x10 movie still '26 Alice Terry in lace wedding gown Date Sold 8/23/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" Movie Still (Learn More) Rex Ingram's The Magician, the 1926 Rex Ingram silent science fiction (sci-fi) magical alchemist fantasy thriller (based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham; about a crazy magician/alchemist who is working to create life, but he needs the blood of a virgin, and he sends his dwarf assistant to find the right girl, and many feel that this movie was inspiration for Universal's Frankenstein made just five years later) starring Alice Terry, Paul Wegener (in the title role as Oliver Haddo, the magician; best remembered as the co-director and star of the three German expressionist movies starring "The Golem", which he made in 1915, 1917 and 1920; the Golem is widely regarded as one of the first movie monsters, and likely had a strong influence in the creation of the American horror monsters in the 1930s!), Ivan Petrovich, Firmin Gemier, Gladys Hamer, and Henry Wilson (as Haddo's servant; a dwarf; he only made a handful of movies in the 1920s). Note that Somerset Maugham got revenge in writing this story! The magician is a caricature of Aleister Crowley, who had accused Maugham of plagiarism in a 1908 Vanity Fair critique, and this was Maugham's way of getting back at Crowley! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that there is information about the still printed on the back (it tells how Terry is wearing a special elaborate lace wedding gown made in France). I wonder if the gown still exists, and what it would sell for today! Condition: very good. There is a diagonal crease in the lower left of the still. There are a very few faint emulsion scuffs scattered around the edges of the still, but they are truthfully not at all noticeable except when the still is tilted to the light. Otherwise, the still is in pretty good condition! Learn More about condition grades
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