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Auction History Result 4d0091 WOLF MAN LC 1941 Maria Ouspenskaya finds unconscious Lon Chaney Jr. as the monster, rare! Date Sold 4/16/2023 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 this is an incredibly rare card! We auctioned one as part of a complete set in 1993, and since then, we had one in 2014 and one in 2021 (which were both the same card; in 2014, the card was trimmed to 8" x 9 3/4", and the person who purchased it had it expertly restored and reconsigned it to us in 2021). In December 2022, we auctioned a "very good" example of this card, and it sold for $6,002. Now we are auctioning a fourth example of this card! 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 to very good. The card had three pieces of tape covering tears on the back of the left border, and one each on the back of the right corners. It had three other pieces of tape on the back. There was a pinhole in Ouspenskaya's scarf and a faint partial vertical crease 2" from the right border, and a small stain in the background to the right of the monster's elbow. A talented restorer removed the tape from the back and performed restoration to the pinholes and tears, but they did not back the card, and they did not address the partial darkening in the blank borders. The card displays well from a reasonable viewing distance, but when you look closely at it, you can see the areas that had restoration. Please bear all of the above in mind and look at our super-sized images before bidding on this rare and desirable card. Learn More about condition grades 
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