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Auction History Result 2b2060 GREAT GABBO 7 8x10 stills 1929 ventriloquist Erich von Stroheim with dummy, Ben Hecht! Date Sold 5/10/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 7 Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Stills (Learn More) The Great Gabbo, the 1929 James Cruze ventriloquist dummy romantic musical melodrama ("The gigantic all-dialog-singing-dancing-dramatic spectacle"; written by Ben Hecht based on his story "The Rival Dummy"; a story of a ventriloquist who is going insane, and he has an assistant who loves him, but his dummy comes between them and drives her away, after which he becomes completely mad) starring Erich von Stroheim (in the title role as Gabbo), Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane (billed as "Margie (Babe) Kane"), and Marbeth Wright. Note that this was von Stroheim's first movie after he almost bankrupted Paramount Pictures with his "Queen Kelly"! After that, he could not be hired as a director, so he took this acting job, which proved to be only one of many memorable acting performances. Note that this basic story was reused in one of the segments of "Dead of Night", and also in "Magic"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this set of stills (and a number of others, both sets and singles) come from a recently discovered collection of mostly 1930s stills (but with some from the 1920s, and some from the 1940s and 1950s) that came from the estate of a longtime journalist who wrote about these movies and visited the sets of many movies and were given these stills at that time. They are all rare original stills from the first release of the movies, and some have cool candid images. We auctioned a similar group of stills from this wonderful collection in our auctions that closed April 12, 2022, and now we are auctioning almost all of the remaining stills from this collection (in singles and sets, just as they were last time). After this set of auctions, there will be only a handful left from this collection, so this is pretty much your last opportunity to acquire these extremely rare stills, including some from movies you almost never see anything from! Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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