Road To Rio, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour

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Road To Rio, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Road To Rio, 1948, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
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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 1948, musical comedy feature, "Road To Rio".
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
,
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:
Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of a circus. They then get mixed up with a potential suicide Lucia, who first thanks them, then unexpectedly turns them over to the ship's captain. When they find out that she has been hypnotized, to go through a marriage of convenience, when the ship reaches Rio, the boys turn up at the ceremony, in order to stop the wedding, and to help catch the crooks.
Trivia
:
In the meat freezer scene there is a large side of meat labeled "Crosby Grade A Stables." Bing Crosby owned a stable of race horses that famously performed poorly.
Contains one of the earliest (and repeated) uses of the word 'groovy' in film, predating its 1947 use in advertising spots for the film 'Miracle on 34th Street'.
Hiding in the lifeboat, Bob Hope is polishing his trumpet and says "You happy little Grable bait". Heartthrob Betty Grable married trumpeter Harry James in 1943.
The fifth of the seven Bob Hope and Bing Crosby "Road" films. Dorothy Lamour co-starred with them in the first six but was replaced by Joan Collins in the last, "Road to Hong Kong."
The gag in which Bob Hope and Bing Crosby pose as barbers and accidentally shave the gangster's mustache off is copied from the 1931 Marx Brothers' film "Monkey Business," made by the same director, Norman Z. McLeod.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Date:
1948
Genre:
Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director(s):
Norman McLeod
Producer(s):
Daniel Dare
Cast
:
Bing Crosby as Scat Sweeney
Bob Hope as Hot Lips Barton
Dorothy Lamour as Lucia Maria de Andrade
Gale Sondergaard as Catherine Vail
Frank Faylen as Trigger
Joseph Vitale as Tony
George Meeker as Sherman Mallory
Frank Puglia as Rodrigues
Nestor Paiva as Cardoso
Robert Barrat as Johnson
Stanley Andrews as Capt. Harmon
Harry Woods as Ship's Purser
The Wiere Brothers as Three Musicians
The Andrews Sisters as Themselves
Jerry Colonna as Himself
Marquita Rivera as Nightclub Performer
Tor Johnson as Sandor
More Info on Bing Crosby
:
Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby in Tacoma, Washington in 1903, in a large working class family. He got the nickname "Bing" when he was 10. He went to college, intending to become a lawyer, but he joined a local band as a drummer, and he quit school in his last year. In 1926, he was spotted by
Paul Whiteman
, and was hired, along with his partner, Al Rinker. Whiteman added Harry Barris, and named them the Rhythm Boys, and they were a big hit. Crosby was the star of the act, and in 1931 he split from the group, and went solo. He was the number one recording star of the 1930s, and his distinctive style of singing was dubbed "crooning". He had done some singing in movies with the Rhythm Boys at the start of the 1930s, but he soon starting playing dramatic roles in musicals, and was a natural, likable performer, and was very successful in movies in the 1930s. In 1940 he teamed with Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope for the first of the very successful "Road" movies,
Road to Rio
. When the U.S. entered
WWII
. he added to his huge popularity by doing much entertaining of the troops. In 1942, he sang
White Christmas
on his radio show and used it in his movie,
Holiday Inn
(it would be re-used in the partial re-make of Holiday Inn, White Christmas, in 1954). In 1944 he made his greatest movie,
Going My Way
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), which was followed by
The Bells Of St. Mary's
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). In 1954, he also starred in The Country Girl (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). In 1956 he was in
High Society
, the musical re-make of The Philadelphia Story. Bing Crosby was among the very best selling singers of all time, and also was among the absolute biggest box office draws at the movies! There is no other singer who had as much success as he did in the movies, or vice versa! He passed away in 1977 at the age of 74.
More Info on Bob Hope:
Bob Hope was an English-born top Hollywood comedian and actor from the 1930s to the 1990s. Some of his movies include: Story of G.I. Joe, The Cat and the Canary, The Ghost Breakers, My Favorite Blonde, and the "Road" movies he made with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, including
Road to Rio
. In spite of his great success, Hope never won an Oscar, although he hosted several of the Oscar telecasts! Hope was also well known outside of movies, especially for his entertaining of
U.S. troops
overseas, and for his charity golf tournament. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 100.
More Info on Dorothy Lamour
:
Dorothy Lamour was born in Louisiana in 1914. She was Miss New Orleans at 16, and she became the vocalist in the Herbie Kaye band, and married the bandleader. She was spotted by Paramount Pictures, and after a few uncredited appearances, she starred in The Jungle Princess, where she wore a floral print wrap-around sarong, and she was a sensation. She made five more "sarong pictures" and she also starred in the "
Road
" movies opposite Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (sadly in the last of these she was dubbed too old, and she was cast aside for a younger sexy Joan Collins). She also made made other movies, but she will always be remembered as the sexy sarong girl! She passed away in 1996 at the age of 81.
More Info on Gale Sondergaard
:
Gale Sondergaard was an actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include: Centennial, The Time of Their Lives, Anthony Adverse (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and The Letter. She might have had one of the most memorable roles of all time! She was cast as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in 1939's "
Wizard of Oz
", but she was going to be a "beautiful" witch (similar to Glinda, the Good Witch), but at the last minute, MGM decided to make her "ugly", and she refused, and she dropped out days before filming began, and Margaret Hamilton was cast instead. She passed away in 1985 at the age of 86.
More Info on Frank Faylen
:
Frank Faylen was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Funny Girl,
It's a Wonderful Life
, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and
Road to Rio
. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 79.
More Info on The Andrew Sisters
:
The Andrews Sisters were a singing group comprised of three sisters (LaVerne, Maxene and Patty). They won a singing competition when they were in their early teens in the 1920s, but their career did not take off until they moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, and they had their greatest fame in the 1940s, with both hit songs, and appearances in many movies. Some of their songs include:
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
, Well All Right and
Pistol Packin' Mama
.
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).
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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