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Auction History Result 5z0323 WEST OF ZANZIBAR deluxe 10x13 still 1928 portrait of Lon Chaney Sr. by Ruth Harriet Louise! Date Sold 10/1/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Deluxe 10" x 13" [25 x 33 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 this is a deluxe still printed on double weight paper stock and it has an embossed photographer's stamp in one of the bottom corners. Also note that this still measures 10" x 13" [25 x 33 cm], but it has not been trimmed. Note that this is one of 80 deluxe oversized stills (measuring 11" x 14" or similar) which were consigned to us, and they all originated from the legendary James Card Collection! We auctioned 100 other stills from this collection in our September Major Auction, and those mostly auctioned for between $30 and $250 each, with a few selling for more, with the highest selling for $535! Now we have 80 more from that collection in this set of auctions. 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. Not only do these 100 oversized stills (which we are auctioning individually) have wonderful "provenance", but there is also no fear that they are not from their first release (and many of the stills have photographer stamps on the back or embossed, and some have other information on the back, and several have a stamp that identifies them as being from the "James Card Collection"! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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