Boom Town, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr

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Boom Town, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
Boom Town, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr
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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, adventure feature, "Boom Town".
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:
Buddies Big John McMasters and Square John Sand are fast-talking, wisecracking wildcatters who manage to con enough equipment and capital to develop their own oil fields, but their friendship is put to the test when Big John inadvertently falls in love with Elizabeth, Square John's longtime girlfriend. Eventually their friendship and partnership comes to an end on the flip of a coin. Years later, when Big John's interest in the beautiful Karen Vanmeer threatens his marriage too, Square John intervenes in an effort to save the marriage of his former friend - even if it means ruining him financially.
Trivia
:
The only reteaming of Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert after their Oscar winning performances in It Happened One Night (1934).
Rita Hayworth did a screen test for the role of Karen Vanmeer.
The only film in which Claudette Colbert and Spencer Tracy appeared together.
Hedy Lamarr wears the same style of hat that Greta Garbo made famous a year earlier in Ninotchka (1939).
Although M-G-M paid a high price for the services of Oscar winner Claudette Colbert, the studio's contracts with both Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy obligated them to bill both male stars above Colbert, who usually insisted upon top billing on any project. She accepted being billed third for the opportunity of working with Gable a second time after their first project together, It Happened One Night, won both of them Academy Awards.
Clark Gable was anxious to do the film because his father had been an oil rigger, and Gable himself had worked on oil rigs in Oklahoma before becoming an actor.
This was the last of three films (after San Francisco (1936) and Test Pilot (1938)) that Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy did together. After this film, Tracy insisted on a clause in his MGM contract that he would receive equal billing with Gable in all future films. While the two remained lifelong friends, they were never again paired together in a movie because MGM wasn't sure how to handle the equal billing.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1940
Genre:
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Director(s):
Jack Conway
Producer(s):
Sam Zimbalist
Cast
:
Clark Gable as "Big John" McMasters
Spencer Tracy as "Square John" Sand
Claudette Colbert as Betsy Bartlett McMasters
Hedy Lamarr as Karen Vanmeer
Frank Morgan as Luther Aldrich
Lionel Atwill as Harry Compton
Chill Wills as Deputy Harmony Jones
Marion Martin as Whitey
Minna Gombell as Evie
Joe Yule as Ed Murphy
Horace Murphy as Tom Murphy
Roy Gordon as "Mac" McCreery
Richard Lane as Assistant District Attorney
Casey Johnson as Jack McMasters as a child
Baby Quintanilla as Jack McMasters as a baby
George Lessey as Judge
Sara Haden as Miss Barnes
Frank Orth as Barber
Frank McGlynn Sr. as Deacon
Curt Bois as Ferdie
Howard Hickman as McCreery's associate #1 (uncredited
More Info on Clark Gable
:
Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. His mom died before he was one year old, and his dad re-married when he was two. His stepmom encouraged him to pursue singing, playing music, and acting. Gable left home at 16 and had odd jobs, but at 21 came into an inheritance and began trying to make a living acting. He moved to Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, a stage manager 17 years older than he was. She immediately recognized Gable's great potential, and became his personal "coach", teaching him acting, and also paying to have his teeth fixed and to dress better. In 1924 they moved to Hollywood and were married, and she also officially became his "manager". But Gable only got bit parts in movies, and he returned to the stage, first in Houston and then in New York. After he played a killer in The Last Mile on Broadway to much acclaim, he was signed by MGM to a contract, in 1930 and he also divorced his wife and immediately married again. In 1931, Gable was the lead "heavy" in in The Painted Desert, a cowboy movie starring William Boyd, and he also appeared in 12 other MGM movies that year! Most were pretty minor roles, but Joan Crawford had spotted him and asked for him to play a key role in
Dance, Fools, Dance
, and they ended up making a total of eight films together, and they had an on-again off-again affair for many years, including when one or both were married! Gable was the top male star of the 1930s, and his good friend Spencer Tracy dubbed him the King of Hollywood, and the nickname stuck. He co-starred opposite every top female MGM star, most notably Crawford and Jean Harlow. In 1934 MGM "loaned" Gable to Columbia to make
It Happened One Night
, and he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1939 he was loaned to David Selznick to make
Gone With the Wind
, so ironically, even though Gable is strongly identified with MGM, his two greatest hits were made for other studios (although MGM did distribute Gone With the Wind). In 1935 Gable made The
Call of the Wild
with Loretta Young, and they had an affair, which resulted in a baby, and since that could have meant the end of both their careers, Young took a year off and pretended to adopt her own baby! In 1939 Gable divorced again and immediately married again, this time to film star
Carole Lombard
. By all accounts they were very happy together, but in 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash while selling war bonds, and Gable was devastated, and joined the Army Air Force at the age of 41. There he made recruiting films, but also went on five combat missions. After the war, Gable married two more times, in 1949, and in 1955. His post-War movies are mostly not very good, in part because Gable insisted on always playing a romantic lead, often with a much younger leading lady. In 1961 he was paired with Marilyn Monroe (and Mongomery Clift) in
The Misfits
, and that proved to be both Gable and Monroe's final movie. Gable had been a heavy smoker and drinker all his life, and he wanted to look his best opposite Marilyn, and he went on a crash diet, and soon after the movie was finished he had a heart attack, passing away in 1960 at the age of 59. Four months after his death, his wife gave birth to their son, John Clark Gable. If you want to understand why Gable was such an incredibly popular male star (maybe the greatest of all time) I suggest you begin with It Happened One Night. Gable is wonderful, as is the entire movie!
More Info on Spencer Tracy
:
Spencer Tracy was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his best films were those he made with
Katharine Hepburn
(his love of many years). Some of his movies include: Judgment At Nuremberg (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Inherit the Wind (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Libeled Lady
, Bad Day At Black Rock (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Fury,
Boys Town
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Old Man & The Sea (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
San Francisco
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Father Of The Bride
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Captains Courageous (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and scores of others! He passed away in 1967 at the age of 67.
More Info on Claudette Colbert:
Claudette Colbert was a top Hollywood actress from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was born in Paris, but came to New York City as a preteen, and went to public schools. After graduating, she appeared in more than a dozen Broadway plays, and made her first films for Paramount Pictures in their Astoria, Queens studio. She quickly became a star and was soon a major star. Some of her movies include:
It Happened One Night
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Midnight, The Palm Beach Story, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife,
Cleopatra
(the 1934 version, in the title role),
Since You Went Away
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Private Worlds (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and scores of others! She passed away in 1996 at the age of 92.
More Info on Hedy Lamarr
:
Hedy Lamarr, surely one of the most beautiful women ever, was born in 1914 (or was it 1913?). She was born Hedwig Kiesler in Vienna Austria, and she appeared in movies in Germany and Czechoslovakia as a teen. In 1933, she stunned the world when she appeared in the Czechoslovakian movie Ekstase (released internationally as Ecstasy) because she both appeared completely nude and in sex scenes! Naturally that caught the eye of Hollywood, and she was signed by MGM and renamed, although her next movie was not for five years later. She held on to her beauty quite well throughout the 1940s (nicknamed "
The Most Beautiful Woman in Films
"), and her biggest hit came at the end of that decade, playing Delilah to Victor Mature's Samson in
Samson and Delilah
. Other movies she was in: Ectasy, Boom Town,
Ziegfied Girl
, The Heavenly Body, The Strange Woman. She had a complicated private life! She is credited with major scientific inventions, and she had run-ins with the law for shoplifting. In 1974 Mel Brooks named one of the lead characters in Blazing Saddles "Hedley Lamarr", and she sued him over that! She is also best remembered for her roles in Show Business at War, The Love Goddesses, and H.M. Pulham, Esq. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 85.
More Info on Frank Morgan
:
Frank Morgan was an actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Affairs Of Cellini (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Manhandled, The Good Fairy,
The Shop Around the Corner
(as Hugo Matuschek), Tortilla Flat (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and The Mortal Storm, but he is best remembered for playing the title role in
The Wizard of Oz!
Morgan passed away in 1949 at the age of 59.
More Info on Lionel Atwill:
Lionel Atwill was an English-born actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Eve's Daughter, The Highest Bidder, Doctor X,
Captain Blood
, Son of Frankenstein, and
Sherlock Holmes
and the Secret Weapon. He passed away in 1946 at the age of 61.
More Info on Chill Wills
:
Chill Wills was a mostly western actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include:
Giant
, Meet Me in St. Louis, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,
The Alamo
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Rio Grande
, Mclintock!, and the Yearling. He passed away in 1978 at the age of 76.
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.
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