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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) WC, regular OR search current auctions Auction History Result 1p0490 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA WC 1925 Lon Chaney, Universal, weird, wild, wonderful, ultra rare! Date Sold 2/15/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 21" [36 x 53 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Exactly when is this window card from? We know that the date at the top is for February of 1926, but the litho number on the bottom indicates it was almost surely printed in 1925, so we believe this was printed in 1925, but was overprinted in 1926, when it was still in its continuous first release, and we have never before auctioned this first release window card! We once auctioned a 1930 re-release window card, and it sold for $550! Condition: fair to good. The card has much light darkening over the right three-quarters, with some staining scattered throughout and scuff marks scattered down the center. Obviously, this incredibly rare card can be restored, but bear in mind its defects and the cost of restoration before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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