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Auction History Result 4c926 VICTOR movie lobby card '23 cool image of boxer Herbert Rawlinson! Date Sold 3/5/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) The Victor, the 1923 Edward Laemmle silent romantic boxing sports melodrama ("From a story by Gerald Beaumont "; about an Englishman whose family is in financial trouble, and he comes to America to marry the daughter of a rich man, and save his family from ruin, but he can't do it, and he becomes a waiter instead; in an event that only happens in movies, he gets in a fight at work with a famous prizefighter, and knocks him out, and a promoter signs him to a contract, and he becomes a champion boxer!) starring Herbert Rawlinson, Dorothy Manners, Frank Currier, Otis Harlan, Esther Ralston, and Eddie Gribbon. Note that director Edward Laemmle has been largely forgotten by film history, but he has a VERY interesting biography! He is the nephew of Carl Laemmle, who persuaded him to leave his electrical engineering career in 1915 and join him at his recently opened Universal Studios. He started as an assistant director, mainly under John Ford. In 1917, he went to New Guinea to produce a movie about the natives there, and was shipwrecked, and spent two years among the Kia Kia cannibals! This adventure was re-created in the movie "Shipwrecked Among Cannibals", which became the first million dollar movie for Universal Studios. Edward Laemmle went on to direct roughly 50 movies, and had many famous assistants, including William Wyler! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: very good to fine. Note that the card is completely unrestored and there is no restoration of any kind or tape on the front or back of the card. Learn More about condition grades 
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