Wagon Train, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, M O'Driscoll "Rare"

Wagon Train, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Martha O'Driscoll
Wagon Train, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Martha O'Driscoll
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, western feature, "Wagon Train".
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 Bride Came C.O.D.
, James Cagney, Bette Davis, William Frawley
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:
Pecos businessman Matt Gardner is buying up freighters, or wagon trains of food supplies, at cheap prices through intimidation, and charging high prices by deliberately causing phony food shortages at his trading posts. The only one refusing to sell his supplies is Zack Sibley, who is dead set on maintaining his freighter business as well as tracking down his father's murderer, his ex-business partner. Gardner plans on eliminating any competition Sibley presents by sending his thugs to kill him and raid his wagon train.
Trivia
:
The Fargo Kid (1940) was shot simultaneously with this movie.
British confectionery company Burtons Foods says this movie inspired the 1948 creation of its "Wagon Wheel"--a chocolate biscuit [cookie] still in production.
The film was the first in a series of six Westerns RKO planned with Holt. Martha O'Driscoll was signed to appear in the first two.
The films proved so popular the series continued until the early 1950s.
O'Driscoll and Holt were meant to reteam in Sir Piegan Passes but it was not made.
It was filmed in Kanab, Utah and in Wildwood Regional Park in Thousand Oaks, California.
Studio:
RKO Radio Pictures
Date:
1940
Genre:
Western, Action
Director(s):
Edward Killy
Producer(s):
Bert Gilroy
Cast
:
Tim Holt as Zack Sibley
Ray Whitley as Ned
Emmett Lynn as Whopper
Martha O'Driscoll as Helen Lee
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart as Coe Gardner
Cliff Clark as Carl Anderson, alias Matt Gardner
Ellen Lowe as Amanthy (Whopper's Lady Friendl)
Wade Crosby as Wagonmaster O'Follard
Ethan Laidlaw as Henchman Pat Hays
Monte Montague as Henchman Kurt
Carl Stockdale as Mr. Wilkes (Gardner's Lawyer)
Bruce Dane as McKenzie
Glenn Strange as Stagecoach Driver
More Info on Tim Holt
:
Tim Holt was an actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. He was the son of Columbia star Jack Holt, and he appeared in one of his dad's movies when he was 10 years old, playing his father's character as a boy. He next appeared in movies in 1937 when he was 18, and he soon graduated to B-westerns, but he had two great triumphs in A-movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
, and The Magnificent Ambersons. Some of his other movies include:
Stagecoach
, My Darling Clementine,
Wagon Train
, and Stella Dallas. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 54.
More Info on Ray Whitley
:
Ray Whitley was an actor and country & western singer from the 1930s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Hopalong Cassidy Returns
, Along the Rio Grande, Wagon Train, Giant (as Watts), and The Renegade Ranger. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 77.
More Info on Emmett Lynn:
Emmett Lynn was a character actor from the 1940s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include: Wagon Train, Blazing Guns, The Fighting Redhead,
The Ten Commandments
, and Lone Star. He passed away in 1958 at the age of 61.
More Info on Martha O'Driscoll:
Martha O'Driscoll was an actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. In 1935, when she was 13, she was dancing in Phoenix, and she was discovered by Hermes Pan, who helped her get a job at Paramount in the chorus of a musical (supposedly he told them she was 18). She had some unbilled roles in the next few years, but in 1940, she started getting leading roles, even though she was only 18. Some of her movies include:
Wagon Train
, Li'l Abner,
House of Dracula
, and Carnegie Hall. She might have had a far more significant career, except (after a brief ten month marriage to a serviceman in 1943), she married a very wealthy man in 1947, and she completely retired (at the age of 25!). This proved to be a long and successful marriage! They had 4 children, and they remained married until she passed away in 1998 at the age of 76, and her husband, Arthur Appleton, passed away in 2008 at the age of 92.
More Info on Glenn Strange
:
Glenn Strange was an actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He is best remembered for portraying the Frankenstein monster in three of the Universal horror movies of the 1940s, including
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
. Some of his other movies include: Wagon Train,
Red River
, Brute Force, and The Red Badge of Courage. Strange passed away in 1973 at the age of 74.
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).
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.
Get images that
make Supersized seem small.
Showcase your items with Auctiva's
Listing Templates!
THE simple solution for eBay sellers.
Track Page Views With
Auctiva's FREE Counter