All day long I'd biddy biddy bum, indeed…
Posted on March 6, 2009I hope you’ve all been saving your pennies. This weekend in Dallas, an extraordinary collection of horror movie memorabilia will be auctioned, including an original one-sheet for the Lon Chaney version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, an Argentinian poster for London After Midnight, and the jewel in the crown, an original one-sheet for Dracula that was obviously produced before the film was completed and released, as it features a scene aboard the Demeter. There is a serious chance that the standing record for a poster sale, US$443,000 for an original one-sheet for The Mummy, will be broken: the opening bid for the Dracula poster stands at US$100,000. The London After Midnight poster, conversely, starts at a mere US$17,500.
What global economic crisis?
The same auction also carries a series of posters for Mickey Mouse cartoons (including one for The Mad Doctor that I really want), an insert for Freaks (speaking of great taglines: Can a full-grown woman really love a midget – ? Classy, MGM, classy), and a lobby card set for Mad Love. Oh, and there’s also an original one-sheet for Citizen Kane, but who cares about that, right?
[Edited to add: ooh, and an original poster for The Adventures Of Robin Hood, at just US$7,500. Want!]
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Wire the money and hit me with a location, and I’ll go try and win it for you… 🙂
06.03.2009 20:54
But time’s so short – why don’t you buy it for me and I’ll pay you back?
06.03.2009 22:47
Why am I always so underrated?
And why DIDN’T you post the auction site???
07.03.2009 14:54
If I had that kind of money to toss around I’d be buying it for myself…
07.03.2009 16:44
To belatedly answer Lon’s question, because I received this info in a piecemeal e-mail, and posted it likewise. Again likewise, I can now report that, as always, Boris beat out Bela: the Dracula poster sold for US$310,700, so the record price for The Mummy still stands. Somewhat surprisingly, the other big winner was the insert for Freaks, which went for US$107, 550. The two Chaneys sold for US$50,787.50 and US$41,825 – sorry, Lon! Meanwhile, the poster for The Adventures Of Robin Hood that I was coveting sold for US$11,325.50. (Hey, I could have afforded that, provided I was willing to give up…well, everything.)
22.03.2009 22:23