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Auction History Result v226 BEN-HUR movie lobby card '25 on the mast during the sea battle! Date Sold 1/22/2008Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the classic 1925 Fred Niblo & Alfred Raboch silent religious epic ("A tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace"; "A tale of the life of Christ"; "Never will I forget thee"; "A doomed slave, his spirit was unbroken"; "The Great Chariot Race"; "Before the chariot race... Esther bids godspeed to Ben-Hur"; "Produced from the scenario of Carey Wilson. Adaptation by June Mathis"; "From the novel published and copyrighted by Harper and Brothers"; "From the immortal novel by Gen. Lew Wallace"; "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in arrangement with Abraham L. Erlanger, Charles B. Dillingham & Florenz Ziegfeld Jr."; it includes the famous sea battle and chariot race that the later version of this movie is most famous for) starring Ramon Novarro (in the title role as Ben-Hur), Betty Bronson (as Mary), May McAvoy (as Esther), Francis X. Bushman (as Messala), Carmel Myers (as Iras), Kathleen Key (as Tirzah), Frank Currier, Claire McDowell, Clark Gable (as a Roman guard; in one of his 14 uncredited roles prior to making his real debut in 1931's "The Painted Desert"), and Claude Payton (as Jesus Christ). Note that this movie was advertised as being "Filmed in its entirety in Italy", but actually, several of the scenes were filmed in Hollywood! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that there are both black & white cards and color cards from this movie, but both show exactly the same scenes. It seems that both were issued for the first release of the movie (perhaps they sold the black & white cards for slightly less than they sold the color ones). If anyone knows more about either of these sets of cards, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: very good to fine. There is an extremely slight amount of paper trimmed from the right border and from the right half of the bottom border (it is between 1/16" and 1/4"). Otherwise, the card is in quite nice condition, and it is hard to believe it is over 80 years old! Learn More about condition grades 
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