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PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ('25) 8x10 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 8g709 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 7.5x10 still 1925 Carewe over Lon Chaney dead at organ, original ending! Date Sold 8/15/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7 1/2" x 10" [19 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) The Phantom of the Opera, the classic 1925 Rupert Julian Universal silent Paris France opera house murder mystery horror thriller ("Carl Laemmle presents Gaston Leroux's magnificent story of Parisian gaiety and intrigue"; "Weird! Wild! Wonderful!"; from the novel by Gaston Leroux, which was published in a serialized format in 1909 and 1910) starring Lon Chaney Sr. (in the title role as Erik, The Phantom), Norman Kerry (as Vicomte Raoul de Chagny), Mary Philbin (as Christine Daae), Arthur Edmund Carewe (as Ledoux), Gibson Gowland (as Simon Buquet), Carla Laemmle (uncredited as one of the ballerinas), Alexander Bevani, and "5000 others". Note that this movie was remade in 1943 with Claude Rains as the Phantom and Susannah Foster as Christine. In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber made a musical stage play version, which is perhaps the most successful stage play of all time, and is still running on Broadway! In 2004, Webber's musical was made into a movie, with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum. Also note that as they did with many of their major productions at this time, Universal created two completely different sets of lobby cards, with different designs and two title cards, so there are sixteen first release cards, two sets of eight. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this scene is a great mystery to us, both because we have not seen the movie in many, many years, and because we are not knowledgeable about it! It shows a man standing over Chaney, who has fallen backward at the organ, with his hands on Chaney's chest. We don't think this is a scene from the movie, and we have seen this exact scene with Chaney by himself. Someone wrote on the back of the still "ARTHUR EDMUND CAREWE, LON CHANEY IN 'THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA' UNIVERSAL - 1925", and that only slightly helps us! If anyone knows more about this scene, and whether it is a candid, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that this still has been trimmed and it now measures 7 1/2" x 10" [19 x 25 cm].
UPDATED 08/09/2019: Note that a knowledgeable collector tells us that "this photo is from the originally-filmed ending in which Christine kisses the Phantom and he then dies of a broken heart while seated at the organ. The Persian (Arthur Edmund Carewe) and others find the Phantom's lair and this scene is of the Persian finding Erik dead." Condition: good to very good. The still was once a key book still, where it was mounted onto linen and it surely had been trimmed on three sides prior to being mounted on the linen (and there was likely excess on the left). At some point afterwards, someone removed the linen backing. The still has a roughness to the back from where it was attached to the linen, but it does not affect the front, although, of course, the borders have been trimmed (see our images of the front and back). Learn More about condition grades 
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