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Lon Chaney Book From MGM. This book, Wild Youth Lon Chaney Book From MGM.

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Lon Chaney Book From MGM. This book, Wild Youth Lon Chaney Book From MGM.
<B>Lon Chaney Book From MGM.</B></I> This book, <I>Wild Youth and Another,</B></I> by Gilbert Parker, was once in the library of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and was signed out to Lon Chaney, one of MGM's major stars. Inside the front of the book are library circulation papers marked "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios", with the lion and the "Ars Gratia Artis" motto. A check-out card is marked "Mr. Chaney" and has a stamped return date of April 1, 1930 - which, by the way, was Chaney's 47th birthday. Unfortunately, Chaney didn't live to see another birthday, dying August 26, 1930, shortly after the release of his only "Talkie," MGM's <I>The Unholy Three.</B></I> The book's frontispiece illustration is paper-clipped inside and pages 286 and 287 are stained by an old newspaper clipping that is still inside the book - otherwise it's in good condition. "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, Culver City, Calif." is stamped a number of times throughout the inside of the book. A nice memento from the MGM Studios in an era when the Lion truly roared, with a desirable connection to "The Man of a Thousand Faces."