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Auction History Result 4w352 WOLF MAN LC #7 R48 Evelyn Ankers stares at distraught Lon Chaney Jr. holding cane! Date Sold 11/11/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1948 Realart Re-Release Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card #7 (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 card has been graded and authenticated by mpgrading.com. This means that a corner of the card has been "encrypted with a unique 9-digit serial number with invisible DNA-laced ink", which can be seen with a special scanner, and this info has been attached to a separate Certificate of Authenticity. On that certificate, the card ha been given a grade of "very fine+ (9)-RG", but of course, that grading scale is not the same as ours, and on ours, we grade this card as "very good" (see below). Condition: very good. The card had pinholes in the corners. It had a vertical stain running from the center of Chaney's jacket down through his hand to the bottom border, with two tiny dots of paper loss near the middle of the stain. There was a similar vertical stain in the top border running into the center of Chaney's hat (there were tiny bits of that same stain connecting the top part to the bottom part, but very slight). There was a small vertical stain in the right border, beginning in the background just below the "A" of "MAN". The card also had smudges around the edges. A talented restorer bleached and flattened the card, and performed restoration to the above defects (without backing the card), and it is truthfully almost completely unnoticeable from the front of the card! Learn More about condition grades 
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