It's A Date, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon

Description

It's A Date, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon
It's A Date, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Kay Francis, Walter Pidgeon
Click images to enlarge
Description
You are bidding on an ORIGINAL "coming attraction" Movie Glass/Lantern Slide that was designed to promote the theatrical release of the 1940, musical feature, "It's A Date".
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:
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Trivia
:
S.Z. Sakall's American film debut.
Director William A. Seiter was borrowed from Twentieth Century-Fox for this film.
In MGM's Technicolor remake, Nancy Goes to Rio (1950), Jane Powell's repertoire included her rendition of a fabled aria sung by Deanna Durbin in Universal's black-and-write original: "Musetta's Waltz Song" from the opera "La Boheme" (music by 'Giacomo Puccini (I)', lyrics by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa). Worth noting is that Joe Pasternak, who departed Universal for the MGM's bigger budgets in late 1941, produced both musicals.
Studio:
Universal Studios
Date:
1940
Genre:
Musical, Comedy
Director(s):
William A. Seiter
Producer(s):
Joe Pasternak
Cast
:
Deanna Durbin as Pamela Drake
Kay Francis as Georgia Drake
Walter Pidgeon as John Arlen
Eugene Pallette as Gov. Allen
Henry Stephenson as Capt. Andrew
Cecilia Loftus as Sara Frankenstein
Samuel S. Hinds as Sidney Simpson
Lewis Howard as Fred 'Freddie' Miller
S.Z. Sakall as Karl Ober
Fritz Feld as Oscar
Virginia Brissac as Miss Holden, Summer Stock Teacher
Romaine Callender as Mr. Evans, Summer Stock Teacher
Joe King as First Mate Dan Kelly
Mary Kelley as Lil Alden, Governor's Wife
Eddie Polo as Quartermaster
Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians as Group Performers
Harry Owens as Himself, Leader of Harry Owens and His Royal Hawaiians
More Info on Deanna Durbin
:
Deanna Durbin was a Canadian juvenile actress and singer from the 1930s to the 1940s. In 1935, when she was just 13 years old, she sang an operatic aria at a Hollywood benefit, and Universal Studios was so impressed, they signed her to a long term contract (which turned out to be a wonderful move on their part)! She was studying opera with the Spanish opera star Andres de Segurola, but she dropped that when she started movies. Some of her movies include: Mad About Music,
It Started with Eve
, Three Smart Girls Grow Up, One Hundred Men,
Spring Parade
and a Girl, and Every Sunday. In the early 1940s, she was Universal's biggest star and in 1947 she was the highest paid female star in Hollywood. Deanna abruptly retired from acting in 1948 at the age of 26 and withdrew from public life. She passed away in 2013 at the age of 91.
More Info on Kay Francis:
Kay Francis was born Katharine Edwina Gibbs in 1905 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ask most movie fans (even film buffs) who was the number one female star of the first half of the 1930s, and they would likely guess Joan Crawford or Bette Davis, but actually it was Kay Francis, and yet she is mostly forgotten today! Her early life did not show evidence of what she would later become. She went to Catholic schools, but she matured early (and she was 5'9", extremely tall for a woman at that time) and at 17 she went to New York to become an actress. She married a rich man instead, but less than three years later they were divorced, and she got a part on Broadway. She had a few roles, then married another rich man, and then divorced again, and was signed to a Paramount contract when the studio still had a New York branch. She married a third time (another rich man, but that marriage did not last long either), and became Paramount's number one female star, appearing in an astonishing ten movies in 1930 and eight in 1931. Why? This was the "Pre-Code" era, and studios pushed the limits of how much raw sexuality they could show, and the public, both men and women, could not get enough of her! Francis had a great sexy speaking voice (many of the top pre-talkie sex stars did not, and Francis had an odd speech impediment that made her more endearing!) and she had a very "different" look from other actresses (sometimes quite androgynous), and she had an extreme sexiness that does not completely come across in still images. In 1931 she was married for the fourth time (and she was still only 26!). In 1932, Warners, which had become a top studio after
The Jazz Singer
, hired her away from Paramount, and she became their number one female star, appearing in a total of 20 movies in 1932 to 1935 (and she was divorced for the fourth time in 1933!). Warners also wisely hired away the great William Powell, who had starred in several movies with Francis at Paramount, and they would appear in some wonderful movies together at Warners, the best of which was likely the doomed romance,
One Way Passage
. The best movie she made at this time was her last for Paramount, and it was with Herbert Marshall, not Powell, in Trouble in Paradise, directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch and written by Samson Raphaelson, and likely the best romantic comedy ever made. Watching it helps to explain Francis' great appeal. When she talks to Marshall about their affair that never will be, and she says, "It would have been marvelous", you know she is right! At Warners, Francis played lead roles in all her movies, and she started specializing in "suffering women" roles. But after a series of successful movies in the mid and late 1930s, her career suddenly took a nosedive, and she got worse and worse roles, and Warners did not re-hire her when her contract ended. She married another rich man in 1939, and after that appeared in 12 minor movies, but her career was essentially over. She went from number one female star to no career in just a few years! What happened? For one thing, the Code didn't help. Her best movies had super sexy plots in the pre-Code era (but unlike Barbara Stanwyck's movies at that time, the sex was much more implied and less overt), and after the Code her movies were far less sexy and far more preachy, which didn't please her fans. It seems likely her private life didn't help her career. Between 1933 and 1939, when she was between her fourth and fifth husbands, she had affairs with lots of men (some top male actors), and she is said to have had affairs with three women as well! Francis never had any children, and when she passed away in 1968 at the age of 63, she left over a million dollars to a company which trained guide dogs for the blind.
More Info on Walter Pidgeon
:
Walter Pidgeon was an actor from the late 1920s silents and early talkies, moving on to great character roles in 1950s movies such as
Forbidden Planet
through the 1970s with television roles. He was born in 1897, and started making silent movies and appearing on the stage in the mid 1920s, but he had limited success. He had a wonderful speaking voice, but that did not lead to stardom in early sound movies. Finally, in 1937, at the age of 40, MGM put him under contract, but still limited him to supporting roles. His "big break" finally came in 1941 with
How Green Was My Valley
, and he became one of MGM's top stars of the early 1940s (no doubt helped by so many other male stars being away at war). He stayed with MGM for the remainder of his career. Some of his movies include: Forbidden Planet, Madame Curie (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Mrs. Miniver (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Advise and Consent, The Bad and the Beautiful, Man Hunt,
Command Decision
and Funny Girl! He passed away in 1984 at the age of 87.
More Info on Eugene Pallette
:
Eugene Pallette was an actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
, The Adventures of Robin Hood (as Friar Tuck), The Birth of a Nation,
My Man Godfrey
, and
The Lady Eve
. He passed away in 1954 at the age of 65.
More Info on S.Z. Sakall:
Szőke Szakáll (2 February 1883  – 12 February 1955), known in the English speaking world as S. Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian-American stage and film character actor. He appeared in many films including
Christmas in Connecticut
(1945), In the Good Old Summertime (1949), Lullaby of Broadway (1951), and
Casablanca
(1942), in which he played Carl, the head waiter. Chubby-jowled Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. His rotund cuteness caused studio head Jack Warner to bestow on Sakall the nickname "Cuddles".
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
VG-EX+ (scratch across her dress)
, 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).
Please checkout my 1880's Baseball Victorian Trade cards in my Ebay Store
Please checkout my 1870's Baseball Tintypes in my Ebay Store
Please checkout my Movie Glass Slides in my Ebay Store
Please checkout my NASA Items in my Ebay Store
Visit My eBay Store
To see all my Postcards
To see all my Movie Items
To see all my Disney Items
To see all my Baseball Items
To see all my Boy Scout Cards
To see all my Stereoview Cards
Add me to your Favorite Sellers and Sign up for my Newsletter
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).
Please look at my other Auctions for more Collectibles of the 1800's-1900's.
Pictures sell!
Auctiva offers Free Image Hosting and Editing.
300+
Listing Templates!
Auctiva gets you noticed!
The complete eBay Selling Solution.
Track Page Views With
Auctiva's FREE Counter