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Auction History Result 5j0490 LAST LAUGH German program 1924 F.W. Murnau's Der Letzte Mann, Emil Jannings! Date Sold 11/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage German Film Program (measures 6 1/4" x 9" [16 x 23 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More) Der Letzte Mann (released in the U.S. as "The Last Laugh"), the classic 1924 F.W. Murnau silent German change-in-social-status melodrama ("A story just like a page from life. A tear or two, some heart throbs, smiles, laughs, and a big happy ending. All Europe raved over it. All England saw it. All America talked about it. Every Australian will want to see it. It will make you cry - it will make you laugh - this wonderful unusual master picture"; about the aging doorman of a hotel, who loses his job and thus his social status plummets, and how the world reacts to him and how he reacts to the major change in his life) starring Emil Jannings ("The world's foremost character actor"), Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, and Hans Unterkircher. Note that at the time this movie was made, being a doorman at a quality hotel was a prestigious job, a job that people in the working class aspired to, so losing it was a major blow to the main character in the movie. It is not a movie that could be remade today without major changes, but everyone agrees it is a classic movie, both for the performance of Jannings and for the direction of Murnau! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this German program, and that example has now been reconsigned to us, so this is still the only example we have ever auctioned! Note that this is a "local theater" program created for a specific theater showing this movie, and that it is a "country of origin" item for this German movie! In this case, the theater was called "UFA-Theater", which may have been a single theater or a chain, and there are twelve pages on the outside of the 8-page program for "The Last Laugh" (the twelve pages are about the UFA Theater). It seems likely that those 12 outer pages date from the 1930s, because of the style of printing and the type of "UFA" logo, so it would seem that a 1930s German theater took an original 8-page program from the first release of the movie from 1924, and then added the outer 12 pages when the movie was re-shown in the 1930s. Please do not bid on this unless you can accept this uncertainty. Condition: good to very good. Some of the pages are separating at the spine and the pages are somewhat fragile. Learn More about condition grades 
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