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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result 5a0279 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA LC 1925 Lon Chaney tells partygoers to begone, rare Universal horror! Date Sold 7/12/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Phantom of the Opera, the classic 1925 Rupert Julian Universal silent Paris France opera house murder mystery horror thriller ("Carl Laemmle presents Gaston Leroux's magnificent story of Parisian gaiety and intrigue"; "Weird! Wild! Wonderful!"; from the novel by Gaston Leroux, which was published in a serialized format in 1909 and 1910) starring Lon Chaney Sr. (in the title role as Erik, The Phantom), Norman Kerry (as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny), Mary Philbin (as Christine Daae), Arthur Edmund Carewe (as Ledoux), Gibson Gowland (as Simon Buquet), Carla Laemmle (uncredited as one of the ballerinas), Alexander Bevani, and "5000 others". Note that this movie was remade in 1943 with Claude Rains as the Phantom and Susannah Foster as Christine. In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber made a musical stage play version, which is perhaps the most successful stage play of all time, and is still running on Broadway! In 2004, Webber's musical was made into a movie, with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. Also note that as they did with many of their major productions at this time, Universal created two completely different sets of lobby cards, with different designs and two title cards, so there are sixteen first release cards, two sets of eight. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release cards from this movie are hardly ever offered for sale, and this card is almost never offered! Also note that Universal created two full lobby sets for this very major movie, each with eight cards. However, they wanted to preserve the surprise of how the Phantom looked, so he does not appear at all on most of the cards, and on the only ones where he does appear, his face has been covered over. This card has the image of the Phantom with the people recoiling in horror from him, and the tagline reads "I am 'The Phantom' -- begone!", but as we said, his face is not revealed! 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: good to very good. The card had tiny pinholes around the edges. It had a 3" tear in the lower left border extending into the bottom of the girl's dress. The card had faint partial horizontal creases scattered throughout, with a few other creases as well. Someone pressed and flattened the card, and then put tape on the back of the tear at lower left and also a small piece of tape on the back of each corner. They performed some slight touch up to places where the creases caused tiny bits of surface paper loss. The card has not been backed, and will display well on the new owner's wall, but you can see some signs of the restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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