Strawberry Blonde, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland

Strawberry Blonde, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland
Strawberry Blonde, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland
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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 1941, comedy feature, "Strawberry Blonde".
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
,
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1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
,
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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
,
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1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
,
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1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
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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
,
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1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
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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
,
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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
,
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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:
Biff Grimes (James Cagney) is pugnacious but likable young man during the Gay 90's living with his ne'er-do-well father (Alan Hale) , noted for their scrappy personalities and quick tempers. Like every other young man in town, Biff has a crush on gorgeous and flirtatious 'strawberry blonde' Virginia Brush (Rita Hayworth), who gets catcalls every time she walks past the all-male clientèle of the neighborhood barber shop. Biff is joined in his admiration by his friends, Nick Pappalis, an immigrant Greek barber, and Hugo Barnsfeld (Jack Carson) , an unscrupulously ambitious young man who doesn't let anything stand in the way of what he wants, including Virginia. Utilizing both fair means and foul Hugo sweeps Vrginia off her feet and frames Biff as the fall guy in a political graft schemee. However, every dog has his day, and eight years later Biff stands poised to take his revenge. Biff ends up marrying Virginia's less-glamorous best friend, Amy Lind (Olivia de Havilland), who Biff eventually realizes was the right one for him all along.
Trivia
:
Even though it is for only a few seconds, we hear Rita Hayworth sing with her own voice. This is believed to be the only time in a film when this happens.
Ann Sheridan was originally cast as Virginia Brush, but became involved in an acrimonious salary dispute with Warner Brothers. The studio borrowed Rita Hayworth from Columbia, even though her career was foundering, with clinkers like Blondie on a Budget (1940). "The Strawberry Blonde" became a big boost to her career. Jack L. Warner liked her work so much that he immediately used her again in another romantic comedy, Affectionately Yours (1941).
The molded giant "tooth" used by Biff Grimes (James Cagney) to advertise his dental practice in The Strawberry Blonde (1941) was later used in the Joe Mc Doakes comedy short, So You're Going To The Dentist (1952).
Alan Hale played James Cagney's father, but, in real life, Hale was only seven years older than Cagney.
This film has a 100% rating based on 9 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Both Raoul Walsh and James Cagney considered this to be the favorite of their films.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 23, 1942, with Rita Hayworth reprising her film role.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1941
Genre:
Romance, Comedy, Music
Director(s):
Raoul Walsh
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis
Cast
:
James Cagney as T. L. 'Biff' Grimes
Olivia de Havilland as Amy Lind
Rita Hayworth as Virginia Brush
Alan Hale as William 'Old Man' Grimes
Jack Carson as Hugo Barnstead
George Tobias as Nicholas Pappalas
Una O'Connor as Mrs. Timothy Mulcahey
George Reeves as Harold
Lucile Fairbanks as Harold's girlfriend
Edward McNamara as Big Joe
Helen Lynd as Josephine
Herbert Heywood as Toby
Russell Hicks as Treadway (uncredited)
Frank Mayo as Policeman (uncredited)
Jack Mower as Streetcleaner (uncredited)
Nan Wynn as Rita Hayworth's singing voice (uncredited)
More Info on James Cagney:
James Cagney was a legendary actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was a huge success in crime movies in the early 1930s (almost always playing a gangster), and that unfortunately typecast him in those roles, but he continually fought against it, and he made several wonderful non-gangster movies as well. Some of his movies include: The
Public Enemy
, Yankee Doodle Dandy (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
White Heat
, Ragtime,
Angels With Dirty Faces
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Roaring Twenties, One, Two, Three,
Love Me Or Leave Me
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) and scores of others! He retired from show business completely in 1961, but he was coaxed out of retirement to appear in Milos Forman's
Ragtime
in 1981. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 86.
More Info on Olivia De Havilland
:
Olivia De Havilland was an actress who performed from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was often paired with
Errol Flynn
. Some of her movies include:
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, Gone With the Wind (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), The Heiress (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
To Each His Own
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Hold Back The Dawn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Snake Pit (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and
Captain Blood
. Her sister was Joan Fontaine, and they had a many decades-long (and never resolved) feud. She passed away in 2020 at the age of 104.
More Info on Rita Hayworth:
Rita Hayworth was born in 1918. During the early 1940s she was one of the greatest sex symbols the movies has ever had, most notably in the 1946 movie, Gilda. But she was born Margarita Cansino, and was originally a child dancer with her father. She later caught the attention of Harry Cohn at Columbia, who cast her as a sexy dancer in some late 1930s movies, first billing her as
Rita Cansino
, and then renaming her to Hayworth (her mother's maiden name). Cohn did all he could to get rid of her Spanish ethnicity, changing her name, having her dye her black hair red, and having her hairline raised! She made many memorable dance movies (including ones opposite both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly!), but she is probably best remembered for her five steamy melodramas opposite Glenn Ford. She had a tumultuous private life, marrying five times, most memorably to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan (this was before Grace Kelly married her prince!). Her most famous quote (explaining why she married so many times) was "Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with
Gilda
and awakened with me." She exhibited erratic behavior in her later years because she suffered from early Alzheimer's, which went undiagnosed for quite some time. Rita passed away in 1987 at the age of 68. In those later years, she was cared for by her daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan, who has also been a champion of raising money for Alzheimer's research. She is also best remembered for her roles in
The Lady from Shanghai
, Only Angels Have Wings, Separate Tables,
Strawberry Blonde
, Tales of Manhattan, and many others!
More Info on Alan Hale Sr
:
Alan Hale, Sr. was born Rufus Alan MacKahan in Washington, D.C. in 1892. At 19 he got a part in a western, and under his stage name of Alan Hale he quickly settled in as one of the top character actors, appearing in over 80 movies between 1913 and 1917. He married actress Gretchen Hartman in 1914, and she herself appeared in 60 movies, but she pretty much retired when they had three children, one of whom was named Alan Hale Mackahan Jr., but was later called Alan Hale, Jr. Hale, Sr. took a break from movies from 1918 to 1921 (I could not discover what he was doing, but maybe he was just making babies!), but returned to making lots of movies, most notably appearing as Little John in the 1922 Robin Hood, opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. In the mid-1920s, he temporarily quit acting again and he directed seven movies, but he soon returned to acting. He had supporting roles (sometimes very minor) in many of the most memorable films of the 1930s. He became great friends with Errol Flynn, and he appeared in 13 of his movies, most notably reprising his role as Little John in the 1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, and though he was 16 years older, he looked little different. Hale continued appearing in movies throughout the 1940s, and ironically his final film came in 1950's
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
, where he played Little John for the third time, and he passed away soon after, having appeared in 236 movies in all! Meanwhile, his son,
Alan Hale Jr.
had grown to be almost a duplicate to his dad, and he appeared in many small roles starting from 1941, but never in a movie with his dad. Sometime after his father passed away he dropped the "Jr", and of course he got his big break in 1964 when he was cast as Jonas Grumby in a new TV show called
Gilligan's Island
, and he was strongly identified with that character (known as 'The Skipper') the rest of his life. He passed away in 1950 at the age of 57.
More Info on Jack Carson
:
Jack Carson was a Canadian actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and
Bringing Up Baby
. He passed away in 1963 at the age of 52 from cancer.
More Info on George Tobias
:
George Tobias was a character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s, mostly in Warner Bros. movies. Some of his roles include:
Yankee Doodle Dandy
, Sergeant York, and TV's "
Bewitched
" (as Abner Kravitz). He passed away in 1980 at the age of 78.
More Info on Dick Wessel
:
Dick Wessel was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Bonnie Scotland,
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
, Gasoline Alley, and the
Blondie
series of films (as the mailman!). He passed away in 1965 at the age of 52.
More Info on George Reeves
:
George Reeves was an actor from the 1930s to 1959. Some of his movies include: Gone with the Wind, From Here to Eternity, and So Proudly We Hail! Of course, he will always be best remembered for his role as Superman in the TV series "
The Adventures of Superman
". Very sadly, Mr. Reeves was found dead in June of 1959. He was 45. It was ruled a suicide, supposedly because Mr. Reeves was despondent over not being able to get roles since he was so typecast as Superman, but many, many people have strongly questioned that, and believe he was actually murdered, and that the murder was covered up.
More Info on Raoul Walsh
:
Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic
The Birth of a Nation
(1915) and for directing such films as
The Big Trail
(1930), starring John Wayne,
High Sierra
(1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and
White Heat
(1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964.
More Info on Hal B. Wallis
:
Harold Brent Wallis (October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing
Casablanca
(1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and
True Grit
(1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as
Humphrey Bogart
, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and
Errol Flynn
. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,
Elvis Presley
, and John Wayne.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX (has water stains on the back)
. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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