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Auction History Result 6b1445 WEST OF ZANZIBAR 8x10.25 still 1928 Tod Browning, Lon Chaney in wheelchair, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/12/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar, the 1928 Tod Browning Africa family relationship revenge melodrama (even for Tod Browning, this movie is exceptionally bizarre, with stage magician Chaney having his wife stolen, and crippled in the process; he continues as a performer, dragging his useless legs behind him, and he goes to Africa to get revenge, and ends up with the 18 year old daughter of his rival, and the movie must be seen to be believed) starring Lon Chaney Sr., Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter, Tiny Ward, and Mary Nolan. Note that the film originally contained a sequence where Lon Chaney disguises himself as a "half-man/half-duck" in a sideshow sequence. There were test shots done of him in the amazing makeup for this scene, and it is not certain if it was ever filmed, and it was definitely not in the final print of the movie. But director Tod Browning loved the idea, and resurrected it after Chaney's death in his equally bizarre 1933 movie "Freaks", at the movie's climax, with the female star! Also note that star Mary Nolan was a former Ziegfeld girl who was then known as "Bubbles Wilson", but she had a very troubled life, filled with scandal, and she retired from movies in 1932, and was later a drug addict, and died in 1948 at the age of 43, completely forgotten. Also note that Warner Baxter was born in 1889, and in the early 1920s he rose to prominence in silent movies, becoming a major star of the 1920s, while he was in his 30s. He won the Oscar for Best Actor as The Cisco Kid in "In Old Arizona" in 1929, and he remained a top star throughout the 1930s! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that ANY movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have only previously auctioned a window card, a lobby card, a herald, and a handful stills from this movie, and NO other movie paper, until we received this still! Note that this still has a stamp on the back that reads "JAMES CARD COLLECTION". James Card was a film preservationist who, starting in 1948, worked at the newly created George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, and he helped build their massive motion picture collection, preserving movies that had been forgotten at that time. In 1955, he discovered that Louise Brooks was living as a recluse in New York City, and he persuaded her to move to Rochester, where she wrote many letters and some books about her legendary career! Condition: very good. There are two small tears in the right border. Otherwise, the still is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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