Strike Up the Band, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland

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Strike Up the Band, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
Strike Up the Band, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
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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, comedy feature, "Strike Up The Band".
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:
Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) and his girl-friend, Mary (Judy Garland) want to take part in Paul Whiteman's high-school bands contest, but they cannot afford the fare. But per chance they meet Paul Whiteman in person and are able to convince him that their band is good enough, so he lends them the money. But then one of their friends becomes seriously ill and has to be carried to a hospital by plane, and they have to use Whiteman's money for this.
Trivia
:
The original camera negative was destroyed in May 1978 during a nitrate film fire in the George Eastman House archives. The fire also destroyed 328 other films' original camera negatives.
The 1930 Broadway production of "Strike Up the Band", with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, had no relation to the story of this film. That was a political satire that had trouble getting to Broadway, and when it did, it had only a short run of 191 performances. However, the title song became very popular and is included in this film.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 28, 1940 with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney reprising their film roles.
Partially as a result of this film's enormous success, theatre owners from coast to coast placed both Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland among the Top Money-Making Stars for 1940. Rooney was ranked #1, and Garland placed 10th.
According to MGM records the film earned ,265,000 in the US and Canada and ,229,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of ,539,000.
The huge and stunning "Do the La Conga" production number was shot in one take after director Busby Berkeley prepared the cast and crew by rehearsing the number for thirteen straight days.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1940
Genre:
Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director(s):
Busby Berkeley
Producer(s):
Arthur Freed
Cast
:
Mickey Rooney as Jimmy Connors
Judy Garland as Mary Holden
Paul Whiteman and Orchestra as themselves
June Preisser as Barbara Frances Morgan
William Tracy as Phillip Turner
Larry Nunn as Willie Brewster
Margaret Early as Annie
Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Connors
Francis Pierlot as Mr. Judd
Virginia Brissac as Mrs. May Holden
George Lessey as Mr. Morgan
Enid Bennett as Mrs. Morgan
Howard Hickman as Doctor
Sarah Edwards as Miss Hodges
Milton Kibbee as Mr. Holden
Helen Jerome Eddy as Mrs. Brewster
Uncredited (in order of appearance)
Virginia Sale
as
Music teacher
Margaret Marquis
as
Girl in library who asks Mary for Anthony and Cleopatra
Vondell Darr
as
Girl in library who asks Mary for Indian Love Lyric
Charles Smith
as
Boy in library who asks Mary for Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Henry Roquemore
as
Mr. Mollison
Sidney Miller
as
Sid, one of the students
Victoria Vinton
as
One of the students
Don Castle
as
Charlie
Joe Yule
as
Ticket seller at fair
Jack Albertson
as
Barker at fair
Jack Mulhall
as
Man on telephone announcing winner of contest
Musical Numbers:
"Strike up the Band" (1927) – music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin
"Our Love Affair" (1939) – music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Arthur Freed
"Do the La Conga" (1939) – music and lyrics by Roger Edens
"Nobody" (1939) – music and lyrics by Roger Edens
"Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" (uncredited) – traditional
"The Gay Nineties" – music and lyrics by Roger Edens
"Nell of New Rochelle" (1939) – music and lyrics by Roger Edens
"Walking Down Broadway" (uncredited) – traditional, arranged by Roger Edens
"A Man Was the Cause of It All" (1939) – music and lyrics by Roger Edens
"After the Ball" (1891) – music by Charles Harris
"Sobre las olas (Over the Waves)" (1887) (uncredited) – music by Juventino Rosas
"Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" (1909) (uncredited) – music by A. Baldwin Sloane, yrics by Edgar Smith
"Home, Sweet Home" (1823) (uncredited) – music by H.R. Bishop
"Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" (1891) (uncredited) – by Henry J. Sayers
"Come Home, Father" (1864) (uncredited)' – music and lyrics by Henry Clay Work
"The Light Cavalry Overture" (uncredited) – music by Franz von Suppé
"Rock-a-Bye Baby" (1886) (uncredited) – music by Effie I. Canning
"Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl?)" (uncredited) – music by Ray Henderson
"When Day is Done" (uncredited) – music by Robert Katscher [de]
"Wonderful One" (uncredited) – music by Paul Whiteman and Ferde Grofé Sr.
"Drummer Boy" (1939) – music by Roger Edens, lyrics by Roger Edens and Arthur Freed
"China Boy" (uncredited) – by Dick Winfree and Phil Boutelje
"Hands Across the Table" (1934) (uncredited) – music by Jean Delettre
"Limehouse Blues" (1922) (uncredited) – music by Philip Braham
"Tiger Rag" (1918) (uncredited) – by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Sbarbaro, Henry Ragas and Larry Shields
"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (1843) (uncredited) – arranged by Thomas A. Beckett
More Info on Mickey Rooney
:
Mickey Rooney was a leading child star starting in the 1920s, becoming the top juvenile actor in America in the 1930s, and he continued with a series of movies with
Judy Garland
in the 1940s. His career spanned every decade, with Rooney working until he passed away in 2014. Some of his movies include: The Bold & The Brave (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Human Comedy
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Black Stallion
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Breakfast at Tiffany's, Captains Courageous, Babes In Arms (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and
National Velvet
. He was an American treasure!
More Info on Judy Garland:
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm) was a legendary actress and singer from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was born in 1922, and as a young child performed with her older sisters as "The Gumm Sisters". In 1935, she was signed to a contract by MGM, who changed her name to Judy Garland. She appeared in some shorts, but in 1937, at Clark Gable's birthday party, she sang "
You Made Me Love You
", which was filmed, and got her noticed, and her role as Dorothy in "
The Wizard of Oz
" gave her great fame. She appeared in "Ziegfeld Girl" in 1941, and "For Me and My Gal" in 1942, and she appeared in a series of popular musicals with
Mickey Rooney
. Her personal life was very messy, with many affairs and problems with drugs and alcohol. She married director Vincente Minnelli in 1945, and in 1946 had daughter Liza. She went on to another marriage to Sid Luft, and the remainder of her life was very troubled, but she continued to perform, including giving two excellent film performances in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (where she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award) and "A Child is Waiting". Some of her other movies include:
Meet Me in St. Louis
, A Star Is Born (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and many more. She passed away in 1969 at the age of 47 from an accidental barbiturate overdose.
More Info on June Preisser
:
June Preisser was an actress in the 1930s and the 1940s and some of her movies include:
Babes in Arms
, Strike up the Band, Andy Hardy's Private Secretary, Dancing Co-Ed, and
Judge Hardy and Son
. She passed away in 1984 at the age of 64.
More Info on Paul Whiteman and Orchestra
:
Paul Samuel 'Pops' Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violist.
As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Paul Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "
King of Jazz
". His most popular recordings include "Whispering", "Valencia", "Three O'Clock in the Morning", "In a Little Spanish Town", and "
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
". Whiteman led a usually large ensemble and explored many styles of music, such as blending symphonic music and jazz, as in his debut of Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin.
More Info on Busby Berkeley
:
Busby Berkeley was born in 1895. He was a Broadway choreographer in the 1920s, but when sound came to movies, it was natural to make musicals, and when Eddie Cantor was making Whoopee in 1930, he hired Berkeley to choreograph the dance numbers. Musicals took off in 1933, and in that year alone Berkeley choreographed
42nd Street
, Gold Diggers of 1933,
Footlight Parade
, and Roman Scandals! That same year he also got a chance to completely direct a movie, and by the late 1930s he was directing musicals and non-musicals, while still doing lots of choreography on other movies. Berkeley is likely best remembered for the elaborate overhead shots of dancers (performing dances which only made sense when viewed from above), which became his "trademark" and which was included in almost all his musicals. In his early 1930s musicals, many of the dancers wore incredibly skimpy outfits, sometimes only covered by props of one sort or another. In the late 1930s musicals became less popular, but Berkeley helped somewhat revive them with the
Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney
ones in the early 1940s, and with the
Esther Williams
ones in the early 1950s (where he staged remarkable dance-like sequences in and under the water!). He passed away in 1976 at the age of 80.
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 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.
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