Chicago Deadline, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc

Chicago Deadline, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc
Chicago Deadline, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc
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 1949, film-noir feature, "Chicago Deadline".
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 100). 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
,
SOLD
1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
,
SOLD
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
,
SOLD
1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
SOLD
1940 -
The Return of Frank James
, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
,
SOLD
1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
SOLD
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
,
SOLD
1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
Fancy Pants
, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot
1950 -
Father of the Bride
, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
,
SOLD
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:
On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
Trivia
:
"Screen Director's Playhouse" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 24, 1950 with Alan Ladd reprising his film role.
Tiffany Thayer's original novel was published in 1933 and was clearly inspired by the notorious Starr Faithfull case of the 1920s. Starr Faithfull (not her real name) was a beautiful girl found dead in the East River, seemingly a suicide. However, her address-book was found to be full of famous names and her diaries went unaccountably missing - rumors therefore abounded that she was a call-girl who had been blackmailing some of her clients and that she had been murdered.
Donna Reed had just appeared opposite Ladd in Beyond Glory. She was borrowed from MGM again to play his co-star. Lewis Allen was assigned to direct.
Filming started on 29 July 1948 on location in Chicago. The title was changed from One Woman to Chicago Deadline in November.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Date:
1949
Genre:
Film-Noir, Crime, Drama
Director(s):
Lewis Allen
Producer(s):
Robert Fellows
Cast
:
Alan Ladd as Ed Adams
Donna Reed as Rosita Jean d'Ur
June Havoc as Leona
Irene Hervey as Belle Dorset
Arthur Kennedy as Tommy Ditman
Berry Kroeger as Solly Wellman
Harold Vermilyea as Anstruder
Shepperd Strudwick as Blacky Frenchot
Dave Willock as Pig
Gavin Muir as G.G. Temple
John Beal as Paul Jean d'Ur
Tom Powers as Glenn Howard
Howard Freeman as Hotspur Shaner
Paul Lees as Bat Bennett
Margaret Field as Minerva
Harry Antrim as Gribbe
Roy Roberts as Jerry Cavanaugh
Marietta Canty as Hazel
More Info on Alan Ladd
:
Alan Ladd was a major leading actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Surprisingly, he appeared in a number of movies before he became a major star with his portrayal as a hired killer in "This Gun For Hire" in 1941. Some of his movies include: Shane, The Carpetbaggers, The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, and Two Years Before the Mast. He married much older Sue Carol, who had been a major actress in the 1920s and early 1930s, and who had become an agent. They remained married until he passed away in 1964 at the age of 50 from a drug and alcohol overdose.
More Info on Donna Reed:
Donna Reed was born Donna Belle Mullenger on a farm in Iowa in 1921. She won a local beauty pageant as a teen, and then went to college in Los Angeles. While in college she was in some plays, and was seen by MGM scouts, and was signed to a contract, but she finished college before making her first movie in 1941. After some small roles she essentially played the female lead in The Courtship of Andy Hardy, but she mostly appeared in secondary roles in many MGM films (they put her in 18 movies in five years). During WWII she was very popular with soldiers, both because she really looked like the "girl next door" and because she personally replied to many letters from GIs. A big break came in 1946 when she was loaned to RKO as the female lead of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. That led to better roles than she had had before, but in mostly forgettable movies. In 1953, she played the key role of Alma 'Lorene' Burke in Fred Zinnemann's From Here To Eternity (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). In the novel, the character was a prostitute, but most of the steamy aspects of the novel had to be drastically changed in order to bring it to the screen in those much more innocent times, and the character became a bizarre "hostess" at a club, and it made sense to cast squeaky clean Donna Reed in the role. Reed and the entire movie were much praised, and she won the Best Actress Oscar. But her roles didn't get much better, and she began to do some TV, and in 1958 she got her third big break when she starred in The Donna Reed Show, as one of the quintessential housewives and stay at home moms of the 1950s, Donna Stone (the show was somewhat over-shadowed by the equally popular Father Knows Best, but both shows had very appealing casts and covered very similar ground). Reed had one more time in the spotlight in 1984, when she agreed to replace Barbara Bel Geddes in the role of Miss Ellie in the very popular TV show Dallas after Bel Geddes quit the show. When Bel Geddes agreed to come back a year later, Reed was fired, and she sued the shows producers and settled for over a million dollars! She passed away in 1986 at the age of 64 from pancreatic cancer.
More Info on June Havoc
:
June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick) was an actress, first as a young child in 1918, and afterwards from the 1940s to 1990. She was the sister of Gypsy Rose Lee (who was born Louise Hovick), and like her sister, Havoc was pushed on stage by her mother from an early age, performing as "Baby June". Both sisters had very difficult lives, and after their mother passed away, Gypsy Rose Lee wrote "Gypsy", based on their lives (but Havoc felt it distorted her own life, and did not talk to her sister again for a decade, and only then because Rose was dying of cancer). Havoc had mixed success in movies, TV, and on the stage, with some major starring roles, but also with many lesser appearances. Some of her movies include: Gentleman's Agreement, When My Baby Smiles at Me, Once a Thief, and Timber Queen. Havoc passed away in 2010 at the age of 97.
More Info on Irene Hervey
:
Irene Hervey was an actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include: Destry Rides Again, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Play Misty for Me. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 89.
More Info on Arthur Kennedy
:
Arthur Kennedy was an actor from the 1940 to 1990. He was born in 1914 and became a stage actor in the mid 1930s, appearing in a touring Shakespearean company. He made it to Broadway in 1938, and later that year, he moved to California, where James Cagney "discovered" him in a Los Angeles play, and cast him as his brother in 1940's "City for Conquest". He was signed by Warner Bros. and made supporting appearances in a number of their A-movies. He then served in World War II, and after, he went back to the Broadway stage, sand starred in "All My Sons" and "The Crucible". In the late 1940s, he returned to Hollywood, becoming one of the top character actors of the late 1940s and 1950s, with important roles in films which included: Boomerang, The Champion (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), The Glass Menagerie, Trial (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Some Came Running (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Bright Victory (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as a blinded World War II veteran; he won the New York Film Critics' Circle Award for this role). He continued to act throughout the 1950s and 1960s, making some appearances in top movies like "Lawrence of Arabia". He switched to TV until he retired in the mid 1980s. He passed away in 1990 at the age of 75.
More Info on Margaret Field
:
Margaret Field was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. She did not get her start in movies until her mid 20s, and she was never a big star, but she appeared in some well known movies. She quit the movies in 1960 and then appeared in some TV shows until 1971, focusing on her family (she is the mother of actress Sally Field and physicist Richard Dryden Field Jr. with her first husband, Richard Dryden Field, and a daughter, Princess O'Mahoney, with husband Jock Mahoney). Some of her movies include: The Big Clock, Inside Detroit, and The Man from Planet X. She passed away in 2011 at the age of 89.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
Slide Condition: EX-NM. 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.
Images sell!
Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting
Create your brand with Auctiva's
Customizable Templates.
Attention Sellers - Get Templates
Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
Track Page Views With
Auctiva's FREE Counter