Pygmalion, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Marie Lohr

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Pygmalion, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Marie Lohr
Pygmalion, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Marie Lohr
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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 1938, melodrama feature, "Pygmalion".
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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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 -
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, 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,
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1940 -
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, 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:
The snobbish and intellectual Professor of languages, Henry Higgins makes a bet with his friend that he can take a London flower seller, Eliza Doolittle, from the gutters and pass her off as a society lady. However, he discovers that this involves dealing with a human being with ideas of her own.
Trivia
:
The film was a financial and critical success, and won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and three more nominations; Best Picture, Best Actor (Howard) and Best Actress (Hiller). The screenplay later was adapted into the 1956 theatrical musical My Fair Lady, which in turn led to the 1964 film of the same name.
The first British movie to use the word "bloody" in its dialogue. This may not make much of an impression on a modern and/or American audience, but that particular expletive was considered extremely vulgar.
Wendy Hiller was personally chosen to play the part of Eliza Doolittle by author George Bernard Shaw.
When George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, his house in Ayot St. Lawrence became a museum. One of the artifacts in it is his Oscar, which had become so tarnished that the curator assumed it had no value, and had been using it as a door stop. That situation has since been rectified.
In British prints, Leslie Howard utters the word "damn". In American prints, he says either "hang" or "confounded". This was a year before David O. Selznick famously tussled with the Hays Office over permission for Clark Gable to say "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" at the end of Gone with the Wind (1939).
George Bernard Shaw was the first person to have won both the Academy Award and the Nobel Prize. Some sources incorrectly list former U.S. Vice President Al Gore as another person who won both prizes. Al Gore did win the Nobel Peace Prize, however, the Oscar for Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006) was given to the film's director, Davis Guggenheim. There wasn't another Oscar winner to become a Nobel laureate until Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
George Bernard Shaw's original play opened in London on April 11, 1914.
Studio:
Pascal Film Productions
Date:
1938
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s):
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Producer(s):
Gabriel Pascal
Cast
:
Leslie Howard as Professor Henry Higgins
Wendy Hiller as Eliza Doolittle
Wilfrid Lawson as Alfred Doolittle
Marie Lohr as Mrs. Higgins
Scott Sunderland as Colonel George Pickering
Jean Cadell as Mrs. Pearce
David Tree as Freddy Eynsford-Hill
Everley Gregg as Mrs. Eynsford-Hill
Leueen MacGrath as Clara Eynsford-Hill
Esme Percy as Count Aristid Karpathy
Violet Vanbrugh as the Ambassadress
Iris Hoey as Ysabel, Social Reporter
Viola Tree as Perfide, Social Reporter
Irene Browne as the Duchess
Kate Cutler as The Grand Old Lady
Cathleen Nesbitt as Old Lady
O. B. Clarence as Mr. Birchwood, the Vicar
Wally Patch as First Bystander
H. F. Maltby as Second Bystander
Ivor Barnard as Sarcastic Bystander
Cecil Trouncer as First Policeman
Stephen Murray as Second Policeman
Eileen Beldon as Mrs Higgins’s Parlourmaid
Frank Atkinson as Taxi Driver
Uncredited
Leo Genn as a Prince
Moyna Macgill as a Woman Bystander
Patrick Macnee as an Extra
Anthony Quayle as Eliza's Hairdresser
More Info on Leslie Howard
:
Leslie Howard was a top English star from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Gone With the Wind,
Pygmalion
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), In Which We Serve, Forty-Ninth Parallel, Berkeley Square (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and
The Petrified Forest
. Howard was at the height of his popularity when he passed away in 1943 at the age of 50, when the plane he was in was shot down by Germans.
More Info on Wendy Hiller:
Wendy Hiller was a legendary English stage and movie actress from the 1930s to the 1990s. Some of her movies include:
Pygmalion
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film; as Eliza Doolittle), I Know Where I'm Going, Major Barbara, A Man For All Seasons (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Separate Tables (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and
The Elephant Man
. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 90.
More Info on Wilfrid Lawson
:
Wilfrid Lawson (14 January 1900 – 10 October 1966) was an English character actor of stage and screen.
Lawson was born Wilfrid Worsnop in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at Hanson Boys' Grammar School, Bradford, and entered the theatre in his late teens, appearing on both the British and American stage throughout his career.
He made his film début in East Lynne on the Western Front (1931) and appeared in supporting roles until he took the lead in The Terror (1938). In arguably his most celebrated film role, he played dustman-turned-lecturer Alfred P. Doolittle in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's
Pygmalion
(1938), alongside Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller.
He also had memorable leading roles in Pastor Hall (1940), as a German village clergyman who denounces the new Nazi regime in 1934; Tower of Terror (1941) as the wild-eyed maniacal lighthouse keeper Wolfe Kristen; and the title role in The Great Mr. Handel (1942), a biopic of the 18th century composer, all three showing his broad range. He also made a number of films in America beginning with Ladies in Love (1936) and including John Ford's
The Long Voyage Home
(1940) alongside John Wayne. His last leading role was in The Turners of Prospect Road (1947).
More Info on Marie Lohr
:
Marie Lohr was an Australian actress from the 1910s to the 1960s. Some of her movies include: Seven Waters Away, Major Barbara, and Little Big Shot. She passed away in 1975 at the age of 84.
More Info on George Bernard Shaw
:
George Bernard Shaw (also known as Bernard Shaw) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman,
Pygmalion
and Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He passed away in 1950 at the age of 94
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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