Angels Over Broadway, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Doug Fairbanks Jr, Rita Hayworth

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Angels Over Broadway, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Doug Fairbanks Jr, Rita Hayworth
Angels Over Broadway, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Doug Fairbanks Jr, Rita Hayworth
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You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1940, film-noir adventure feature, "Angels Over Broadway".
I am selling off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 130). Please check out some of these titles:
1935, R48,
A Night at the Opera
, The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico), Margaret Dumont
,
SOLD
1939 -
Alleghany Uprising
, John Wayne, Claire Trevor
1939 -
Destry Rides Again
, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
1939 -
Gunga Din
, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
1939 -
The Roaring Twenties
, James Cagney,
Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane
1940 -
Boom Town
, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
1940 -
Brigham Young
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
1940 -
Charlie Chan in Panama
, Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Victor Sen Yung
1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
1940 -
His Girl Friday
, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
1940 -
Knute Rockne, All American
, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
1940 -
Santa Fe Trail
,
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
1940 -
Strike Up the Band
, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
1940 -
The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits
, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
SOLD
1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
1941 -
The Little Foxes
, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
1941 -
The Great Lie
,
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
1942, R49 -
The Pride of the Yankees
, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
, Teresa Wright
1948 -
Fort Apache
, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
1949 -
Little Women
- June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Margaret O'Brien, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford
1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
And Many, Many More Great Titles...
This hand colored glass slide is an ORIGINAL and it is NOT a reproduction. It was created to be projected onto the movie theatre screen before the film was released to promote the "coming attraction". Some people in the movie collectible world have said, that, glass slides are much rarer than the paper poster memorabilia from the same film and are very rare pieces of film history.
Format:
Glass Slide: 3 1/4" x 4"
Plot Summary:
Charles Engle has been caught embezzling. He writes a suicide note, and goes out wandering on the town. Small-time hustler Bill O'Brian sees him give a couple of big tips, figures he's rich, and plans to take him over to a big-time card game and fleece him. He enlists Nina Barone to help get Engle to the game. She goes along, but is more interested in O'Brien than in his schemes. Meanwhile, a perpetually drunk and none too successful playwright, Gene Gibbons, finds the suicide note. He cooks up a scheme (with the reluctant aid of O'Brien) to get the money Engle needs to pay back his employer and save his life.
Trivia
:
Fairbanks Jr. co-produced, helping persuade Harry Cohn of Columbia to finance. Cohn gave them Rita Hayworth, in her first leading role in an "A" picture. "Cohn couldn't figure out what the picture was about but neither could we," said Fairbanks Jr.
The working title for this film was Before I Die.
Jean Arthur was offered the role of Nina Barone, but turned it down.
The tagline on the original movie poster - "A HECTIC ROMANCE TO BLOW THE FUSES OUT ALONG MAZDA LANE" - refers to the Broadway theater district in New York City as "Mazda Lane." Mazda was a brand of light bulbs common in the first half of the 20th century, with a name referencing an ancient Persian god of light and good. Broadway was and is known for its brightly lit marquees, and had many nicknames in its heyday.
Walter Baldwin (Rennick) and Stanley Brown (Master of Ceremonies) are listed by a modern source as cast members for those roles, but they did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie.
Ben Hecht, who co-directed (with cinematographer Lee Garmes), co-produced and wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Studio:
Columbia Pictures
Date:
1940
Genre:
“Film-Noir”, Crime,
Adventure
Director(s):
Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes
Producer(s):
Ben Hecht, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Cast
:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Bill O'Brien
Rita Hayworth as Nina Barona
Thomas Mitchell as Gene Gibbons
John Qualen as Charles Engle
George Watts as Joseph Hopper
Ralph Theodore as Dutch Enright
Eddie Foster as Louie Artino
Jack Roper as Eddie Burns
Constance Worth as Sylvia Marbe
More Info on Douglas Fairbanks Jr:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was a major leading actor from the 1910s to the 1980s. He was the son of famous silent star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Some of his movies include: The Prisoner of Zenda,
Gunga Din
, Parachute Jumper, Little Caesar,
Angels Over Broadway,
and A Woman of Affairs. He was married to Joan Crawford from 1929 to 1934, and went on to marry two more times. He passed away in 2000 at the age of 90.
More Info on Rita Hayworth
:
Rita Hayworth was born in 1918. During the early 1940s she was one of the greatest sex symbols the movies has ever had, most notably in the 1946 movie,
Gilda
. But she was born Margarita Cansino, and was originally a child dancer with her father. She later caught the attention of Harry Cohn at Columbia, who cast her as a sexy dancer in some late 1930s movies, first billing her as Rita Cansino, and then renaming her to Hayworth (her mother's maiden name). Cohn did all he could to get rid of her Spanish ethnicity, changing her name, having her dye her black hair red, and having her hairline raised! She made many memorable dance movies (including ones opposite both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly!), but she is probably best remembered for her five steamy melodramas opposite Glenn Ford. She had a tumultuous private life, marrying five times, most memorably to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan (this was before Grace Kelly married her prince!). Her most famous quote (explaining why she married so many times) was "Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me." She exhibited erratic behavior in her later years because she suffered from early Alzheimer's, which went undiagnosed for quite some time. Rita passed away in 1987 at the age of 68. In those later years, she was cared for by her daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan, who has also been a champion of raising money for Alzheimer's research. She is also best remembered for her roles in
The Lady from Shanghai
, Only Angels Have Wings,
Angels Over Broadway
, Separate Tables, Tales of Manhattan, and many others!
More Info on Thomas Mitchell:
Thomas Mitchell was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
Stagecoach
(winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
It's a Wonderful Life
, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hurricane (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and
High Noon
. He passed away in 1962 at the age of 70.
More Info on John Qualen
:
John Qualen was a Canadian-born character actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He never became a star, but he made 139 movies over a 40 year period, and whenever there was a need for a Swedish character, he surely got the first call! Some of his movies include: The Farmer Takes a Wife,
Casablanca
(as Berger), Anatomy of a Murder (as Deputy Sheriff Sulo), and
The Sons of Katie Elder
. He passed away in 1987 at the age of 87.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear).
Please see the scans for actual condition.
This Movie Glass Slide would make a great addition to your collection or as a Gift (great for Framing in a Shadow Box).
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
I will combine lots to save on the shipping costs and I use USPS 1st class shipping (it gives both of us tracking of the package).
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