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Auction History Result 3d0980 MAD LOVE LC 1935 Colin Clive tells Frances Drake it was Rollo's hands that did it, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/30/2022 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) Mad Love, the 1935 Karl Freund medical doctor transplant romantic love triangle horror thriller ("Dead hands that live... and love... and kill!"; based on the French novel "Les Mains D'Orlac" [The Hands of Orlac] by Maurice Renard; about a mad plastic surgeon who is madly in love with an actress, but she is married to a concert pianist, but then his hands are crushed, and she convinces the plastic surgeon to replace his hands with a "hand transplant", but he uses the hands of an executed murderer, and the transplanted hands have ideas of their own!) starring Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy (most famous as the person who started The Three Stooges; they were first billed as "Ted Healy and his Stooges"; he let them go on their own, hiring replacement "Stooges", but that did not work out well at all!), Isabel Jewell, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy, Keye Luke, Otto Hoffman, and Henry Kolker. Note that IMDb says that Isabel Jewell, who received fifth billing on the posters, had all of her scenes deleted! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release movie paper from this MGM horror movie has always been extremely rare (except for a small group of window cards that surfaced at one time). This has also been true of first release lobby cards. In all our years of auctioning, we have only previously auctioned two first release lobby cards, and one of those has been reconsigned to us, so this is still only one of two cards we have ever auctioned! Also 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 diagonal paper loss in the top left corner, but only blank white paper was affected. It had tiny pinholes around the edges, with three very tiny holes in the image (one in the tip of Clive's nose, one in the left of the girl's upper lip, and one in the background below it). It had some creases, stains, and smudges scattered throughout the image. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed pretty nice restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see slight signs of the restoration, but the card displays pretty well! Learn More about condition grades 
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