“Ben - Hur” movie release souvenir program, 1926

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“Ben - Hur” movie release souvenir program, 1926. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, this quality program shows photo images of the stars, outlines production information, and includes photo images of many scenes in the movie.

Also there is biographical information of the author, Civil War general and territorial governor, Lew Wallace. Inspired by a conversation with Robert Ingersoll, Wallace set forth to write this Biblical story which became a best seller in the 1880’s, was performed as plays, and was made into several movie versions in the 20th century.

Item ID: 0388