Knute Rockne, All American, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan

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Knute Rockne, All American, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
Knute Rockne, All American, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
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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, Football feature, "Knute Rockne, All American".
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:
Lars Rockne and his family, including his four year old son Knute, emigrate to Chicago in 1892 from their native Norway. By his mid-twenties Knute saves enough to attend obscure Notre Dame University, where he excels in football and chemistry. He and a teammate develop the forward pass as an offensive weapon while working as life guards on summer break and use it to upset heavily favored Army in a historic game. After graduation Rockne becomes a teacher while coaching part-time but ultimately abandons academics to devote all his energies to football. During his tenure as head coach at the school, he develops such outstanding players as George Gipp, who dies prematurely from a strep infection, and the Four Horseman while introducing many innovative tactics including the backfield shift. Rockne, known for his staccato motivational speeches, devotes his life to maintaining the integrity of the sport he loves and promoting it as an integral component in the development of the American ...
Trivia
:
James Cagney, eager to break out of gangster roles, lobbied hard for the part of Knute Rockne. But Cagney had signed a petition in support of the anti-Catholic Republican government in the Spanish Civil War. Notre Dame University had control over all aspects of the filming and would not okay Cagney for the role.
William Holden, John Wayne, Robert Young, and Robert Cummings were considered for the role of George Gipp, but only Dennis Morgan and Ronald Reagan tested for it, with Morgan having the edge until the last minute.
Mrs. Knute Rockne had approval over the casting and approved Pat O'Brien's make-up and acting without reservations.
Ronald Reagan once said of his role that though there were those who could have played it better, nobody wanted the role more than he did.
One of only two movies to be filmed on the University of Notre Dame campus. The other was Rudy (1993).
The movie's line "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." was voted as the #89 movie quote by the American Film Institute (out of 100).
Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan and Donald Crisp recreated their roles for a 12/2/40 episode of Lux Theater, but Gale Page's part was enacted by Fay Wray.
In the scene where Rockne is in bed with phlebitis and his doctor is exiting the room, there is a framed photograph of the real Knute Rockne hanging on the wall.
Notre Dame continues its football success with a backfield of stars dubbed "
the Four Horsemen
". Rockne, tragically, is killed in a 1931 plane crash on a trip to California, but his legend makes him a campus immortal.
Studio:
Warner Brothers
Date:
1940
Genre:
Biography
, Drama
, Sport
Director(s):
Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard (uncredited)
Producer(s):
Robert Buckner
Cast
:
Pat O'Brien as Knute Rockne
Gale Page as Bonnie Skiles Rockne
Ronald Reagan as George Gipp
Donald Crisp as Father John Cavanaugh
Albert Bassermann as Father Julius Nieuwland
John Litel as Committee Chairman
Henry O'Neill as Doctor
Owen Davis Jr. as Gus Dorais
John Qualen as Lars Knutson Rockne
Dorothy Tree as Martha Rockne
Johnny Sheffield as Knute, age 7
Howard Jones as Himself
Glenn "Pop" Warner as Himself
Alonzo Stagg as Himself
William "Bill" Spaulding as Himself
Kane Richmond as Elmer Layden
William Marshall as Don Miller
William Byrne as Jim Crowley
George Reeves as Distraught Player vs. West Point (uncredited)
Nick Lukats as Harry Stuhldreher. Also a technical advisor for the film
More Info on Pat O'Brien:
Pat O'Brien was born in 1899. The quintessential Irish actor, he was playing the second lead in The Front Page on Broadway, and someone at United Artists, which had just bought the rights, heard he was great in it, but they thought he had the lead role and they offered it to him, and of course he didn't correct them! He soon settled in at Warner Brothers, first playing romantic lead roles, but it wasn't long before he became a secondary star, often playing stereotyped Irish cops and priests. Perhaps his best remembered role was as Father Connelly in
Angels With Dirty Faces
, where he memorably asks gangster Rocky Sullivan to act "yellow" as he is strapped in the chair, so that kids everywhere wouldn't emulate him and end up where he did. He is also remembered for his roles in Knute Rockne All American,
Some Like it Hot
, and Page Miss Glory. He passed away in 1983 at the age of 83.
More Info on Gale Page
:
Gale Page was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s in movies such as Knute Rockne All American, They Drive by Night,
Four Daughters
, and Crime School. Before she was an actress, she was a radio performer, both as a blues singer and as a comic stooge on comedy shows! Page passed away in 1983 at the age of 69.
More Info on Ronald Reagan:
Ronald Reagan was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
Knute Rockne: All American
, Kings Row, Dark Victory, Bedtime for Bonzo,
Santa Fe Trail
, Hellcats of the Navy and scores of others. Reagan landed fewer film roles in the late 1950s and moved into television. He was hired as the host of General Electric Theater, a series of weekly dramas that became very popular.
He is far better remembered for his later political career and for his "Reagan Revolution" which transformed politics and brought the Republican party on an equal footing with the Democratic party, after having been dominated by the Democrats for many years! He was Govenor of California 1967-1975 and the 40th President of the United States 1981-1989. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 93 after battling Alzheimer's for many years.
More Info on Donald Crisp
:
Donald Crisp was an English actor from the 1900s to the 1960s. In an unusual twist, started out as an actor in 1908 and appeared in around 75 movies over the next six years, and then became a director. Over the next 15 years, he directed 72 movies, and only appeared as an actor in around a dozen. But then in 1930, at the age of 50, he resumed his acting career, and made 75 more movies as an actor, incuding
Knute Rockne: All American
! He was very much in demand for all sorts of "older man" parts, and he stayed in remarkable physical condition, playing an ordinary seaman in the 1935 "
Mutiny on the Bounty
" at the age of 56, How Green Was My Valley (winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1941, and playing Elizabeth Taylor's father in "
National Velvet
" at the age of 65. He continued acting all the way until 1963, playing "Grandpa Spencer" in "
Spencer's Mountain
", at the age of 84, and he lived another 11 years! Crisp passed away in 1974 at the age of 91.
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 Johnny Sheffied
:
Johnny Sheffield (April 11, 1931 – October 15, 2010) was an American child actor who, between 1939 and 1947, played Boy in the Tarzan film series and, between 1949 and 1955, played
Bomba the Jungle Boy
.
MGM was searching for a suitable youngster to play the adopted son of Tarzan in its next jungle movie with stars Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan. When he was 7 years old, Sheffield was taken to an audition where Weissmuller chose him over more than 300 juvenile actors interviewed for the part of "Boy" in
Tarzan Finds a Son
(1939). Newspaper articles at the time mentioned erroneously that Sheffield was only 5 years old. In that same year, Sheffield appeared in the Busby Berkeley movie musical
Babes in Arms
with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, classmates of his at the studio school.
More Info on Albert Bassermann
:
Albert Bassermann was a German actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. He was a very successful German stage and screen actor from the 1910s on. In 1908, he had married Elisabeth Sara Schiff, an actress who became Elsa Bassermann, and they often appeared together. In 1939, because his wife was Jewish, the Bassermanns went first to Switzerland and then to the United States. In 1940, at the age of 72, Bassermann successfully reinvented himself as a Hollywood character actor, and he appeared in a number of movies until his passing. His wife survived him and passed away in 1961. Some of his American movies include:
Knute Rockne: All American
, Rhapsody in Blue, New Wine, and Foreign Correspondent (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film). He passed away in 1952 at the age of 84.
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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.
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).
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