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Auction History Result 8a088 LOVES OF PHARAOH LC 1922 Ernst Lubitsch's last German movie, Egyptian Emil Jannings, rare! Date Sold 8/4/2019 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) Das Weib des Pharao (released in the U.S. as "Loves of Pharaoh" and also as "Pharaoh's Wife"), the 1922 Ernst Lubitsch German silent Egyptian epic (a wild story of the King of Ethiopia going to the Pharaoh of Egypt and presenting him with a girl to take as one of his many wives, but instead, the Pharaoh wants a beautiful slave of the King's, but she is in love with someone else, and an entire war breaks out between the two countries; the movie was released in different versions in different countries, and in most countries, it had an unhappy ending, but American audiences insisted on a happy ending, and Lubitsch provided it!) starring Emil Jannings (as the Pharaoh), Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener (as the King of Ethiopia; best remembered as the co-director and star of the three German expressionist movies starring "The Golem", which he made in 1915, 1917 and 1920; the Golem is widely regarded as one of the first movie monsters, and likely had a strong influence on American horror movies!), and Lyda Salmonova. Note that when this German movie was released in the United States, Lubitsch's first name was "Americanized" to "Ernest", probably to help hide that it was a non-U.S. movie, or to prevent people from thinking his name was spelled incorrectly as "Ernst"! Note that the early 1920s saw a number of these great Biblical epics! Cecil B. DeMille made The Ten Commandments in 1923, and Michael Curtiz (then Mihaly Kertesz) made Sodom and Gomorrah in 1922, and Moon Over Israel in 1924 (both in Germany), which caused him to be recognized by Hollywood, and that is when he moved there. 1922 also saw this movie from Ernst Lubitsch, and THIS is what caused him to go to the United States and become Paramount's top director, starting in 1923! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that first release 1922 movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. We have never auctioned even a single lobby card (and only an insert, a glass slide, and two stills) from this movie until we received this lobby card! 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. There was a long diagonal tear in the top right corner that separated that piece from the rest of the card. There was small paper loss in the top center background area and a small tear in the middle of the right border. Overall, the card was in good to very 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 excellent 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 well! Learn More about condition grades 
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