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Auction History Result 5t0631 MANDARIN MYSTERY 3 LCs 1936 Eddie Quillan as 2nd Ellery Queen & Charlotte Henry, ultra rare! Date Sold 9/15/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Mandarin Mystery, the 1936 Ralph Staub comedy mystery ("Ellery Queen solves a funny one!"; "More mirth than mystery"; "It's a panic in a penthouse!"; "Based on 'The Chinese Orange Mystery' by Ellery Queen"; based on the classic character created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, who together wrote under the pseudonym Ellery Queen) starring Eddie Quillan (as Ellery Queen), Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Kay Hughes, Franklin Pangborn, and William Newell. Note that this classic series of novels first came to the screen in 1935, as a Monogram movie, called "The Spanish Cape Mystery", starring Donald Cook in the lead role. They followed it with this sequel the next year, replacing Cook with Eddie Quillan. Neither movie did that well at the box office, and Monogram dropped the series. Columbia bought the rights in 1940, when they made "Ellery Queen, Master Detective", with Ralph Bellamy taking over in the lead role, and six more movies were made the next two years, and then the series stopped again. A TV series "The Adventures of Ellery Queen", began in 1950 with Richard Hart in the lead role. The next season he was replaced by Lee Bowman, who lasted three years and then was replaced by Hugh Marlowe, who played the character for five years, and then the series ended. After a two year gap, "The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen" aired on TV starring George Nader for one season, and then Lee Philips for another season. The character was not revived until 1975, when Jim Hutton played the lead role in the TV series "Ellery Queen", but it only lasted one season. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this a very rare group of lobby cards for this movie (we have never auctioned these three particular lobby cards for this title in all of our years of auctioning!). Condition: very good. The cards are in pretty nice condition and they have no tape whatsoever on the front or back, and they never have had any restoration of any kind! Learn More about condition grades 
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