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Auction History Result 3f045 MR. WU/ROSE-MARIE linen English 10x30 broadside '28 Lon Chaney & Joan Crawford! Date Sold 12/8/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked English Broadside Movie Poster (db; measures 10" x 30" [25 x 76 cm]) (Learn More) the 1928 English double-bill release of Mister Wu, the 1927 William Nigh silent Asian family relationship melodrama ("From the play by Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen..."; "Adaptation and continuity by Lorna Moon"; with Lon Chaney playing a dual role, as the Mandarin Mister Wu and his aged grandfather; in the movie, Mr. Wu's daughter falls in love with a Westerner, with predictable results) starring Lon Chaney Sr. (in the title role), Louise Dresser, Renee Adoree, Holmes Herbert, and Ralph Forbes AND Rose-Marie, the 1928 Lucien Hubbard silent Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mountie romantic love triangle melodrama ("Based on the famous stage production.") starring Joan Crawford (in the title role as Rose-Marie), James Murray, House Peters, Creighton Hale, and Lou Costello (in a bit part). Note that filming on this movie started in 1926 with a different director and with Renee Adoree as the star, but the movie was abandoned. In 1928, MGM dusted off the old footage and completed it with Joan Crawford in the starring role. Of course, this movie is overshadowed by the classic 1936 sound version starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy! Also, this is a "lost" film which means that no surviving copies are thought to exist. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that in England in the 1920s, some theaters would advertise their movies with locally produced "broadsides" (sometimes known as "daybills"), which were usually around 10" x 30", and which resembled the U.S. daybills that were used in the earliest days of motion pictures (at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th). These would be posted on poles in the street, and very few survive. Not only is this poster extremely rare, but it likely represents a very "affordable" way to obtain a poster from this early Lon Chaney movie! Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tears, stains, and paper loss in the top and right borders. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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