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Auction History Result h836 MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE 6x7.75 movie still '32 Bela Lugosi Date Sold 10/30/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 6" x 7 3/4" Movie Still (Learn More) Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue, the 1932 Robert Florey Universal crime horror mystery thriller ("The Super Shocker"; "Based on the Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue"; set in Paris) starring Bela Lugosi (billed as "Dracula himself"; as Dr. Mirakle), Sidney Fox (billed as "Star of 'Strictly Dishonorable'"), Leon Ames (billed as "Leon Waycoff"), Bert Roach, Brandon Hurst, Noble Johnson (as Janos, The Black One), D'arcy Corrigan, Arlene Francis, Iron Eyes Cody, Joe Bonomo (famous early strongman, as one of the gorillas, and he also played a gorilla in 1929's "King of the Kongo"!), and Charles Gemora (as Erik the Gorilla; and amazingly, he reprised this role when the movie was remade by Warner Bros in 1954, 22 years later!). Note that this movie is considered to have been the consolation prize for Florey and Lugosi after they were replaced as director and star on "Frankenstein" by Universal. Note that starting in 1929 and continuing into the 1940s, Charles Gemora played gorillas in many movies, likely because he owned a gorilla suit, and could do a somewhat convincing job portraying a gorilla. Just a few years later, Ray 'Crash' Corrigan would also start playing gorillas, and no doubt they competed for roles in every movie requiring a gorilla! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this still has been heavily trimmed and it now measures 6" x 7 3/4" (see below). Condition: fair. Some theater took an original 8" x 10" still of Bela Lugosi from this movie, and they trimmed parts of the still around the image and then put a circular snipe in the top left, with the stars, title, and theater name, and likely ran this as a newspaper ad. The trimmed still now measures 6" x 7 3/4". It is lightly glued to a backing sheet of paper, but much of it is lifting, and you can see much writing on the back of the remains of the still, which make it certain that it is an original 1932 still. Obviously, it has major defects, but the image is mostly unaffected. Learn More about condition grades 
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