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Auction History Result 5v139 GREAT GABBO German program '30 ventriloquist Erich von Stroheim with dummy, Ben Hecht Date Sold 9/12/2010 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1930 (from the first release of this movie in Germany) Vintage German Film Program (measures 9" x 12" [23 x 30 cm]; 8 pages) (Learn More) The Great Gabbo, the 1929 James Cruze ventriloquist dummy romantic musical melodrama ("The gigantic all-dialog-singing-dancing-dramatic spectacle"; written by Ben Hecht based on his story "The Rival Dummy"; a story of a ventriloquist who is going insane, and he has an assistant who loves him, but his dummy comes between them and drives her away, after which he becomes completely mad) starring Erich von Stroheim (in the title role as Gabbo), Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane (billed as "Margie (Babe) Kane"), and Marbeth Wright. Note that this was von Stroheim's first movie after he almost bankrupted Paramount Pictures with his "Queen Kelly"! After that, he could not be hired as a director, so he took this acting job, which proved to be only one of many memorable acting performances. Note that this basic story was reused in one of the segments of "Dead of Night", and also in "Magic"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of four of the pages of this 8-page program (we did this by opening it and laying it flat and photographing the front and back cover together, and two of the interior pages together). You can see the four of the eight pages, and can well determine the exact condition of it from our super-sized image, but realize that there are four pages you are not seeing. But of course this means that the front cover appears in the top right of our image, but normally, the program would be folded down the center and you would view the cover by itself (and it will be sent folded as was originally intended). Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades 
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