eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result Lot #: #031 HOUSE OF DRACULA title lobby card '45 Lon Chaney, Glenn Strange! Date Sold 12/18/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 8 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (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. Condition: good to very good. pinholes, smudges, and creases around the edges of the card; a 1/2" tear in the middle of the left blank border (repaired with tape from the back); an embossed stamp in the lower left corner (barely noticeable, and common on cards of this era); a light vertical crease in the bottom center of the card extending from the middle of the bottom border into the bottom of the "D" in "DRACULA"; many other light creases in the bottom right corner of the image; a few scattered light creases throughout the image; a pinhole near the exact center of the card. Overall, this card has many minor defects, but none of them are all that distracting, and the area at the top of the image with the monsters is in pretty nice condition. The card is completely unrestored, and I would think many collectors would value that, but of course a professional restorer could greatly improve the appearance of the card without putting a lot of paint anywhere on it! Learn More about condition grades
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