THE MIRACLE MAN 1919 * LON CHANEY * MAN OF 1,000 FACES * ONLY KNOWN TITLE CARD!!

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THE MIRACLE MAN 1919 * LON CHANEY *
MAN OF 1,000 FACES *
ONLY KNOWN TITLE
CARD!!
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102 YEAR OLD HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT LON CHANEY TITLE CARD
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THE MAN OF 1,000 FACES
THE ONLY KNOWN TITLE CARD!!
The Miracle Man (Paramount, 1919).
Title Card
(11" x 14")
. Romantic Melodrama.
Starring Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Karen Morley, Joseph J. Dowling, J.M. Dumont, Elinor Fair, Thomas Meighan, F.A. Turner, Lucille Hutton, Lawson Butt, Kisaburo Kurihara, Tula Belle, T.D. Crittenden, Ruby Lafayette and Frankie Lee
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Directed by George Loane Tucker.
The Miracle Man 1919, the silent crime faith healing romantic melodrama, Directed by George Loane Tucker and based on the Play by George M. Cohan, is about a gang of crooks who hide out in a small town where they find a local faith healer, who happens to be blind and use him to swindle people.  This was one of Lon Chaney's first great successes, if not, his very first as he plays the gang leader, nicknamed "The Frog," because he can dislocate his limbs and uses that ability to appear to be crippled, and then has the faith healer "cure" him for gullible crowds.
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This lost Lon Chaney film is one of the first, if not the very first film to show his astounding abilities to distort his body.  This beautiful Title Card which shows the entire cast, depicts the pivotal scene in the film in which gang members Chaney and co-star Thomas Meighan see that the blind priest, Joseph Dowling, really is a miracle healer.
THE MIRACLE MAN was the top-grossing U.S. film of 1919.
In 1921, Photoplay magazine conducted a poll from readers as to what the best movie made yet has been.  This movie ranked number 1, outdoing Charles Chaplin's The Kid (1921) and D.W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919).
Believed to be lost, except for one scene included in Paramount's "Movie Milestones" series, as well as a segment in The House that Shadows Built. (1931).
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL THEATRICAL RELEASE TITLE CARD
PRINTED IN 1919 FOR THEATER USE AND IS NOT A REPRODUCTION, BOOTLEG, REPRINT OR STORE BOUGHT ITEM
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THIS IS
THE ONLY KNOWN TITLE CARD
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SINCE THERE ARE
NO KNOWN POSTERS
AND
ONLY THIS ONE TITLE CARD
, THIS IS AS CLOSE AS YOU'RE GOING TO GET TO A POSTER!!
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MOST OF THE ADVERTISING MATERIAL FOR THIS FILM DOES NOT SHOW LON CHANEY BUT
THIS TITLE CARD DOES
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IN THE TEENS AND 1920's, IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR POSTER EXCHANGES AND/OR THEATERS TO ADD SOME GLITTER ONTO LOBBY CARDS AND THAT IS WHAT WAS DONE HERE,
OVER 100 YEARS AGO
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Card is in
VERY FINE
+ Condition with NO PINHOLES and NO TEARS!  There is some staining on the border on the lower left corner.  There is NO RESTORATION WHATSOEVER! (SEE PHOTOS).
ABSOLUTE STUNNING CONDITION FOR A
102 YEAR OLD, ONE OF A KIND
, LON CHANEY SR. TITLE CARD
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