Spring Parade, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings

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Spring Parade, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings
Spring Parade, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Deanna Durbin, Robert Cummings
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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, musical feature, "Spring Parade".
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:
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman (Deanna Durbin) attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer (Robert Cummings) who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka (Durbin) secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Trivia
:
In January 1940 Universal announced Durbin's next film would be Spring Parade. Joe Pasternak called it "a musical of Old Vienna" that was similar to Blossom Time. It was a remake of a film Pasternak had made in 1934.
Cummings was cast in March 1940. Filming took place from 27 May to August 1940.
Koster called it "a lovely picture" although he said Durbin "was getting a little more demanding" during filming. On one occasion they were filming after midnight and Durbin went home because she did not want to work that late. Koster threatened to quit the movie but the two made up.
Spring Parade received four Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Original Song, Best Musical Score, and Best Sound Recording.
Studio:
Universal Studios
Date:
1940
Genre:
Musical, Comedy
Director(s):
Henry Koster
Producer(s):
Joe Pasternak
Cast
:
Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay
Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten
Mischa Auer as Gustav
Henry Stephenson as Emperor Franz Joseph
S. Z. Sakall as Laci Teschek - the Baker
Billy Lenhart as Max
Kenneth Brown as Moritz
Walter Catlett as Headwaiter
Anne Gwynne as Jenny
Allyn Joslyn as Count Zorndorf
Peggy Moran as Archduchess Irene
Reginald Denny as The Major
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 Bob Cummings:
Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings (June 9, 1910 – December 2, 1990) was an American film and television actor known mainly for his roles in comedy films such as
Spring Parade
, (1940) The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), but was also effective in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers,
Saboteur
(1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). Cummings received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. He was on TV in My Hero, Twelve Angry Men,
The Bob Cummings Show
and My Living Doll. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries.
More Info on Henry Stephenson
:
Henry Stephenson was an English (born in the West Indies) actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include:
Mutiny on the Bounty
, Captain Blood, and
Oliver Twist
. He passed away in 1956 at the age of 85.
More Info on Anne Gwynne
:
Anne Gwynne was an actress from 1930s to 1970s. She worked for Universal in the 1940s and appeared in some of their well known horror and sci-fi movies! Some of her movies include:
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome,
House of Frankenstein
, The Black Cat, and Teenage Monster. She was the grandmother of actor Chris Pine. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 84.
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".
More Info on Franklin Panghorn:
Franklin Pangborn was a character actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. He appeared in over 150 movies, mostly in the 1930s and 1940s, and perhaps his most memorable role was as J. Pinkerton Snoopington in W.C. Fields' "The Bank Dick". Some of his other movies include:
Flying Down To Rio
, My Man Godfrey,
Stage Door
, Lady of the Pavements, Design for Living, and
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
. Pangborn passed away in 1958 at the age of 69.
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.
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