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Auction History Result 3c730 WOLF MAN LC '41 close up of werewolf Lon Chaney Jr. holding unconscious Evelyn Ankers! Date Sold 12/15/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Wolf Man, the 1941 George Waggner Universal werewolf monster horror thriller (written by Curt Siodmak; about the son of a Welsh nobleman who returns to Wales after many years in America, and things start out well when he and his father reconcile, but then he meets a beautiful girl at a carnival, and a gypsy fortune teller sees the sign of a wolf on her palm, and soon after, she is bitten by a wolf, and the man tries to save her, but she is killed, and he manages to kill the wolf, but is bitten during the process, and later, the gypsy turns up dead, and the man is the primary suspect, and that is only the beginning of his massive problems!) starring Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi (as Bela), Maria Ouspenskaya, Evelyn Ankers, and Lon Chaney Jr. (in the title role "as 'The Wolf Man'"/Lawrence Talbot). Note that this was the only classic 1940s original Universal monster (the others originated in the 1930s). Actually, however, there WAS a 1930s Universal werewolf before this, which was in 1935's "Werewolf of London", but Universal did not like the way Henry Hull's makeup looked in that movie, so they restarted the character in this movie, with completely different makeup! In addition, they had the great fortune to hire screenwriter Curt Siodmak to come up with an original screenplay, and unlike several past classic Universal horror movies, this was not based on a classic story, but instead was a Siodmak original, and it was brilliantly written and has been imitated countless times since! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. Condition: good. The card had been trimmed to 8" x 10" by some theater that needed an 8x10 to display, and used this card. The trimming was 1 3/4" from the bottom border and 1 1/4" from the top border, with 2" from both the left and right borders. This affected only the background areas in the image and the bottom of the girl's feet, and it affected the left and bottom of the border art. The person who had this card located a different Wolf Man card (obviously one with a much lesser scene), and then a talented restorer "married" the two cards together, using the surrounding parts of the complete card to fill out the one that was trimmed to 8" x 10". They did this without backing the card, by gel backing the two cards together (meaning they backed the combined card onto a gel material and they then performed excellent restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing). You can see clear signs of where the two cards joined around the edges, because paint restoration was required all around those areas, but from any reasonable distance, the card displays really well. But bear in mind the unusual restoration this card has had, and the fact that it was created from two cards, before bidding on this great card, which will display wonderfully on the new owner's wall. Learn More about condition grades 
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