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Auction History Result #220 MERRY GO ROUND special gold LC '22 Date Sold 7/9/2002Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Merry-Go-Round, the 1922 Rupert Julian & Erich von Stroheim silent romantic love triangle melodrama ("Universal Super-Jewel, The Mad Whirl of Life Love and Luxury"; "You'll be surprised!") starring Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Cesare Gravina, George Hackathorne, Edith Yorke, George Seigmann, Dale Fuller, Dorothy Wallace, Spottswoode Aifken, Al Edmundson, Maude George, Charles L. King, Fenwick Oliver, Sidney Bracy, Jane Sherman and Helen Broneau. Note that Erich von Stroheim was the actual director of this movie. But as he was finishing it, producer Irving Thalberg fired him, and called in Rupert Julian to finish the movie, and, no doubt to spite von Stroheim, only Julian was billed as the director of the movie. But it is completely a von Stroheim movie, and quite an interesting one! It is interesting to note that soon after this, Irving Thalberg was himself fired by Carl Laemmle (reportedly because Thalberg dumped Laemmle's daughter!), and he went to work for Louis B. Mayer, later rising to be the head of MGM studios! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that for this major release Universal created two entirely different lobby sets of 8! They did this for most of their most important movies, the only studio that did so. One of the sets was a normal lobby card set, and the other set is a special lobby set printed with an entirely gold background, which is extremely striking! This week on eBay, eMoviePoster is selling a card from each set as separate items (even though it is often years before a single card is offered from EITHER set!). The card offered here is from the special "gold" set. Elsewhere on eBay we offer a card from the regular set. Condition: fine. There are minor smudges in the borders. There is a 1/2" crease in the left side of the bottom border. Other than these minor defects, the card is in wonderful condition (and the special gold printing looks far better in person than in the digital Learn More about condition grades 
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