Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (MGM, 1925), Kismet (First National, 193...

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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (MGM, 1925), Kismet (First National, 1930, presumed lost), East of Borneo (Universal, 1931), Roar of the Dragon (RKO, 1932), Destination Unknown (Universal, 1933), and Abdul the Damned (Wardour Films, 1936, UK), 8" x 10" Key Set and Studio Release Photographs (80+). Vintage gelatin silver semi-gloss and glossy 8" x 10" and borderless 9.25" x 7.25", and 7" x 8.5" key set and studio release photographs (four double-weight) of Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, and Carmel Myers in Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (15+), by Clarence Sinclair Bull, Donald Biddle Keyes, Ruth Harriet Louise, and Henry Waxman, Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, and David Manners in Kismet (15+), Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, and Lupita Tovar in East of Borneo (7), Charles Bickford and Helen Twelvetrees in Panama Flo (RKO, 1932) (2), Richard Dix and Gwili Andre in Roar of the Dragon (2), Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Betty Compson, and Alan Hale in Destination Unknown (10+), Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale, and Dorothy Wood in The Last Days of Pompeii (10+), and Fritz Kortner, Nils Asther, and Adrienne Ames in Abdul the Damned (20), with embossed blind stamp (1), photographer credit (2) and studio wet stamps, and paper caption on the verso. Very Good to Excellent. Comes with a COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: With its monumental chariot race sequence and lavish Biblical spectacle, Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ secured Ramon Novarro's stardom and became a cultural landmark of 1920s Hollywood. Adapted from Edward Knoblock's celebrated stage play, Kismet, now lost, was a richly mounted Orientalist fantasy, with Skinner in his signature role as the roguish beggar of Baghdad, co-starring a seventeen-year-old Loretta Young.


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