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Auction History Result

5h0090 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA WC 1925 Lon Chaney, Universal, weird, wild, wonderful, very rare!

Date Sold 10/29/2023
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 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.
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Important Added Info: Note that this window card is undated, but it has a litho number on it, and comparing it to our massive database of litho numbers, we know that the card is surely from 1925, from the first release of this movie!

Also note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this window card, but that example was extremely faded and only in "fair to good" condition, and it still sold for $460!

Condition: very good. The card is unfolded. It has some smudges in the borders and a few smudges and scuffs in the image, but generally, it has survived in about as good condition as one could hope, especially considering it is nearly a century old!
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