Fort Apache, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple

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Fort Apache, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
Fort Apache, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple
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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 1948, western feature, "Fort Apache".
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
,
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Alleghany Uprising
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1939 -
Destry Rides Again
, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
1939 -
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, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
1939 -
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, James Cagney,
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,
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Suspicion
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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:
Deep into the territory of the great Apache chief, Cochise, the demoted Civil War general, Lieutenant Colonel Owen Thursday, reports for duty as a commanding officer at the remote U.S. cavalry outpost known as Fort Apache, along with his daughter, Philadelphia. There, the arrogant commander will soon lock horns with the realistic and sensible second-in-command, Captain Kirby York, who, as an expert in the local Apaches, disagrees with Thursday who wants to make a name for himself in the Arizona frontier. In the end, is it wise to engage in battle when personal glory is all you seek?
Trivia
:
This was the first of the three John Ford/John Wayne cavalry movies (the second was "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" in 1949, and the third was "Rio Grande" in 1950).
Shirley Temple and John Agar were married at the time the movie was made, but went through a highly publicized divorce complete with allegations of spousal abuse, infidelity and alcoholism a couple of years later.
John Agar never forgot the generous and patient help John Wayne gave him as an inexperienced young actor on this production. "I would go to hell and back for Duke," he later said. They worked on five more films together.
The film's original budget was .8 million, and for their work, Shirley Temple, John Wayne and Henry Fonda were each paid 0,000, while Victor McLaglen received ,000.
Henry Fonda's last starring film before he was graylisted for his left-wing political activism.
Henry Fonda and John Wayne would work together again in three more films over ten years later: The Longest Day (1962), How the West Was Won (1962), and In Harm's Way (1965).
Battle sequences were shot on the Arizona side of Monument Valley.
The Fort Apache fort, built for this production, stood for years. It was reused in dozens of productions, most notably the TV series The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954). It was located at the Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, CA. Today it is possible to visit this location, as it is now administered as a City Park in Simi Valley.
Studio:
RKO Radio Pictures
Date:
1948
Genre:
Western
Director(s):
John Ford
Producer(s):
Merian C. Cooper and John Ford
Cast
:
John Wayne as Capt. Kirby York
Henry Fonda as Lt. Col. Owen Thursday
Ward Bond as Sgt. Major Michael O'Rourke
Shirley Temple as Miss Philadelphia Thursday
John Agar as Lt. Michael Shannon "Mickey" O'Rourke
Dick Foran as Sgt. Quincannon
Pedro Armendáriz as Sgt. Beaufort
Miguel Inclan as Cochise
Victor McLaglen as Sgt. Festus Mulcahy
Guy Kibbee as Capt. Wilkens, regimental surgeon
Anna Lee as Emily Collingwood
George O'Brien as Capt. Sam Collingwood
Jack Pennick as Sgt. Daniel Schattuck
Irene Rich as Mary O'Rourke
Grant Withers as Silas Meacham
Movita as Guadalupe, Col. Thursday's cook
Ray Hyke as Lt. Gates, regimental adjutant
Mary Gordon as Ma (Barmaid)
Philip Kieffer as Cavalryman (credited as Keiffer)
Mae Marsh as Mrs. Gates
Hank Worden as Southern Recruit
Danny Borzage as recruit/accordionist (uncredited)
Cliff Clark as Stage Driver (uncredited)
Francis Ford as Fen (Stage Guard) (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson as Newspaperman (uncredited)
Frank McGrath as Cpl. Derice (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook as Tom O'Feeney (uncredited)
Archie R. Twitchell as Reporter (uncredited)
Fred Graham as Cavalryman (uncredited)
Mickey Simpson as NCO at dance (uncredited)
Jane Crowley as Officer's Wife (uncredited)
William Forrest as Reporter (uncredited)
More Info on John Wayne:
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa in 1907, but his parents soon decided they wanted Robert for their next son's name, and changed his middle name to Mitchell (one wonders if he would have been as big a star as "Marion Mitchell Morrison"!). His family moved to Glendale, California in 1911, and there he had a huge dog named Duke, and people started calling him that as well (and the nickname stuck, and he would later name his movie horse that, and eventually everyone would refer to him that way). He went to the University of Southern California (USC), and played on the football team, but he got injured and that ended football for him, and he lost his scholarship and left school.
Starting in 1926, he got bit parts in many movies, including in ones for director John Ford. In 1930. after just one tiny credited role he was given the lead in
The Big Trail
, a major Fox western, and his name was changed at that time. But the movie was filmed in a new 70mm process, and as the Great Depression was kicking in, few theaters ordered the new equipment, so it was mostly shown in a regular version, and the movie did poorly, and that looked like the end of Wayne's career. But Wayne refused to give up, and he made ten minor appearances the next year and a half before he got the lead in a low budget serial,
The Hurricane Express
, and Warner Bros signed him to appear in a series of B-westerns (he had made an impression in some supporting roles in Tim McCoy movies). In 1933 he starred in a modern serial version of The Three Musketeers, and after his Warners westerns he moved to Poverty Row filmmakers, Monogram, Mascot and Republic, appearing in over 50 movies (mostly B-westerns) between 1932 and 1939. In 1939 he got his second giant break when John Ford gambled his major production
Stagecoach
on Wayne (but only after Gary Cooper turned down the part) and the movie was a big hit, and Wayne was finally a major star.
He would go on to make over 20 films with director John Ford, including some of his very best, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949),
The Quiet Man
(1952), The Searchers (1956), and
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962). In 1959 he made one of his very best non-John Ford movies, Rio Bravo, for Howard Hawks. In 1969, he was sentimentally awarded the Best Actor Oscar for
True Grit
, and this was perhaps the greatest "robbery" in the history of the Oscars, for he won over Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, who were both nominated for Midnight Cowboy! He passed away in 1979 at the age of 72. John Wayne is a true American icon, and along with Marilyn Monroe, among the absolute most recognizable actors there is, even in the present day, decades after his passing.
He made 170 movie appearances, and while many are very forgettable, some of them rank with the finest movies ever made, and if you have never seen his movies, I urge you to seek out those listed above, especially The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and Rio Bravo, because both quickly show you just how much "larger than life" John Wayne really was! Some of his other movies include:
The Sands Of Iwo Jima
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Big Jake
, and The Comancheros.
More Info on Henry Fonda
:
Henry Fonda was a highly successful actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He is also well known for being the father of
Jane Fonda
and
Peter Fonda
, and the grandfather of
Bridgette Fonda
! He started on the stage in 1926 (both on stage and behind the scenes), and he spent many years in community productions before getting his big break in 1935. He had an unusual relationship with
Margaret Sullavan
(briefly his wife), and
James Stewart
, and the three were lifelong friends. Some of his movies include: 12 Angry Men, How the West Was Won,
The Grapes Of Wrath
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Ox-Bow Incident, My Darling Clementine,
The Lady Eve
, Mister Roberts, Fail-Safe,
Fort Apache
, The Longest Day, Advise and Consent, You Only Live Once, On Golden Pond (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Best Man,
Drums Along the Mohawk
, Jezebel, Tales of Manhattan,  The Wrong Man and
On Golden Pond
with
Katherine Hepburn
(to name a few)! He passed away in 1982 at the age of 77.
More Info on Shirley Temple
:
Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California in 1928. Her mother quickly saw her remarkable talent, and did all she could to develop it, and to get her noticed. She enrolled her in a dance school, where she amazed everyone with her dancing and singing abilities at such a young age. Her mother gave her a hair style imitative of that worn by
Mary Pickford
, with exactly 56 "ringlets". She appeared in her first movies starting when she was just shy of four years old, in a series called "
Baby Burlesks
" (she had apparently failed an audition for the
Our Gang
series). She was paid a day. In 1934, she signed a contract with Fox, and her career really took off.
Her big breakthrough came with Stand Up and Cheer!, where her singing and dancing amazed the nation. But she proved she was a remarkably poised actress that same year in Little Miss Marker and Baby Take a Bow, and Fox rushed her into as many movies as they could. That same year she was in Now and Forever with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard (reportedly Cooper asked for her autograph when he met her!), and soon after she starred in the series of juvenile musicals she is best remembered for, films like
Bright Eyes
, The Little Colonel, Curly Top,
Poor
Little Rich Girl
, Wee Willie Winkie,
Heidi
, and many more. In the late 1930s, Fox (now 20th Century Fox) still had her in little girl roles, even though she was rapidly maturing, and in 1939 MGM badly wanted her for the lead in
The Wizard of Oz
, but 20th Century Fox refused to loan her out, and instead put her in The Blue Bird, which did not do well.
She left Fox, and began playing "teen" roles for various studios, but none were very successful, and she made far fewer movies. In 1945, she married actor
John Agar
, and they were married for four years and had a child. In 1949, they divorced, and a year later she married businessman Charles Black, and retired from movies forever. She became active in politics (she was a Republican, and was appointed to several posts in the 1960s to 1990s). Shirley Temple was far and away the greatest child star of all time! She saved the Fox studio after the death of its previous greatest star,
Will Rogers
in 1935. She was merchandised in a zillion ways, and countless girls born in the late 1930s were named "Shirley". There has never been another child actor with so much talent at such a young age! She passed away in 2014 at the age of 85.
More Info on Ward Bond
:
Ward Bond was born in Benkelman, Nebraska in 1903. His family moved to Denver when he was a teen, and he went to college at USC. There this big burly man became a football player, and he became best friends with fellow teammate
John Wayne
(the two would go to bars, get drunk, and get into fights!). When Wayne started playing bit parts in movies in 1929, so did Bond. Wayne got his big break in The Big Trail in 1930, but Bond continued mostly playing bit parts for years before getting more significant roles. In 1929,
John Ford
spotted Bond, and gave him a speaking role in Salute in 1929, and he kept casting him in many of his movies, a total of 26 in all, perhaps the most any one actor made with a single director. Bond appeared in around
270 movies
over a 30 year period, one of the most of any actor. At his peak, he made 10 to 20 films every year, and he was in 30 movies in 1935 alone! He took any part that was offered him, continuing to take tiny bit parts after he had played some major roles.
Some of his best roles were in Wagon Master,
The Quiet Man
, The Searchers,
The Maltese Falcon
, Johnny Guitar,
It's a Wonderful Life
, and Rio Bravo. He appeared in 11 of the movies that were nominated for Best Picture, and in 7 of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies. Bond had epilepsy, which kept him out of military service, but that was never revealed until after his death. He was extremely right wing politically, as were Wayne and Ford, and he actively campaigned against Communists in movies in the 1950s, earning him the hatred of liberals. In 1957, he finally achieved stardom, but it was as the lead in the TV show
Wagon Train
, which ran for four years. While he was still starring on the show, Bond had a massive heart attack and passed away in 1960, at 57. John Wayne gave the eulogy at his funeral.
More Info on George O'Brien
:
George O'Brien was born in San Francisco, California in 1899, where his dad was later chief of police. He had intended to study medicine, but when he turned 18, George enlisted in the Navy in
World War I
, and was decorated for bravery and boxed, becoming
Light Heavyweight Champion
of the Pacific Fleet. After the war, he went to Hollywood, and got work as a stuntman, and had a few bit parts. He got a few better parts, and in 1924 he got the lead in The Man Who Came Back, which got him noticed by John Ford, who gave him the lead in his epic western, The Iron Horse, a huge break for the mostly unknown actor. The movie was a huge hit, and made O'Brien a major star. He made several more films for Ford, and in 1927 he starred in Sunrise, opposite
Janet Gaynor
(who had had her first real role in O'Brien's The Johnstown Flood a year earlier), directed by F.W. Murnau. The movie tells of a farmer married to a good woman who is seduced by a very bad woman into killing his wife, and the movie is wonderful! When sound came along, O'Brien switched to becoming a mostly western actor, and he made 45 movies in the 1930s, including a few really top westerns like Riders of the Purple Sage.
Even though many of his movies were low budget "cheapies" they were always popular. In 1940, he turned his back on the movies, and re-enlisted in the
Navy in WWII
, at the age of 41, and with a wife (actress Marguerite Churchill) and two small children! He served actively (unlike most Hollywood stars of that time) and was highly decorated, rising to the rank of Commander. He appeared in three
John Ford
movies after the war as a favor to his old friend, but otherwise mostly remained away from movies. He joined the United States Naval Reserve and retired with the rank of Captain in 1962, having four times been recommended for the rank of Admiral! He passed away in 1985, only remembered by film buffs, but having starred in two of the best movies of the 1920s, and having been a solid box office draw for most of two decades! He passed away in 1985 at the age of 85.
More Info on Victor McLaglen
:
Victor McLaglen was an English actor (of Irish descent) from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was a giant man who was a boxer who turned to acting. Some of his movies include:
The Quiet Man
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
The Informer
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and countless
John Ford
movies, including many with John Wayne! Note that although McLaglen was the quintessential Irish actor in movies of the 1920s on, he was in fact NOT Irish, and was born in England! He passed away in 1959 at the age of 72.
More Info on John Agar
:
John Agar was an actor from the 1940s to the 2000s, primarily in westerns (he is best remembered for his roles in
John Ford
westerns) and horror/sci-fi. Some of his movies include:
Fort Apache
, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Sands of Iwo Jima, Tarantula, Revenge of the Creature, and The Mole People. He was married to
Shirley Temple
for five years, and they had one child, and after they divorced, he remarried and he remained married until he passed away in 2002 at the age of 81.
More Info on Guy Kibbee
:
Guy Kibbee was an actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Fort Apache, Captain Blood, and 3 Godfathers. He passed away in 1956 at the age of 74.
More Info on Mae Marsh
:
Mae Marsh (born Mary Wayne Marsh) was an actress from the 1910s to the 1960s. She was born in 1894, and at 18, she had her first leading role working for
Mack Sennett
, and she was similar to
Mary Pickford
, and it was hoped that her career could go in the same direction. She started making movies for both Sennett and
D.W. Griffith
. She was being paid per week from Griffith, and Samuel Goldwyn hired her away for an astronomical ,500 per week, and he gave her the title "The Whim Girl", but her films for Goldwyn were disappointing, and she married in 1918 and retired. In the 1920s, she remained retired, but she appeared in around ten movies. In 1929, she was wiped out financially by the Stock Market crash and made a number of movies in the 1930s. Her financial situation improved, but she continued playing bit parts in lots of movies in the 1940s and 1950s, mostly for old friends like
John Ford
. She passed away in 1968 at the age of 73.
More Info on John Ford
:
John Ford was a legendary filmmaker from the 1910s to the 1970s. He directed more than 140 films and won four Academy Awards for Best Director for
The Quiet Man
, The Grapes of Wrath, The Informer, and
How Green Was My Valley
(which is a record that still stands). Some of his other films include:
Stagecoach
, The Searchers, and How Green Was My Valley. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 79.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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