The Star Maker, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, L. Campbell "Very Rare"

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The Star Maker, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, L. Campbell "Very Rare"
The Star Maker, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Bing Crosby, L. Campbell "Very Rare"
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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 1939, musical feature, "The Star Maker".
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 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
,
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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:
A penniless song writer, Larry Earl, is convinced he is going places in shown business, and convinces Mary, an assistant at an orphanage, to marry him. Fifteen months later they are still in love, but broke as Larry writes songs that won't sell and loses one job after another one. He stops to watch a group of newsboys singing and dancing, and decides to organize them into the greatest kid act to ever hit vaudeville. Mary persuades Proctor, a big theatrical manager, to book the act, and they are a big hit. Then Larry and his publicity agent, "Speed" King, launch a big publicity stunt---a talent train in which they travel across country holding auditions for young performers. Back in New York, Carlotta Salvini, an ex-Opera singer, brings in her talented fourteen-year-old-daughter, Jane, who has an amazing voice. Larry, to get the mother out of the way, offers Carlotta a forty-week vaudeville tour, and then goes to work to make a star out of Jane, by building Broadway's first all-kiddie ...
Trivia
:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Bing Crosby recorded a number of the songs for Decca Records. "An Apple for the Teacher" (recorded with Connee Boswell) was a huge hit reaching the No. 2 position in the charts. "Go Fly a Kite" and "A Man and His Dream" also reached the top 10. Crosby's songs were also included in the Bing's Hollywood series.
Variety was far more positive. "Film is first-class entertainment, a lively combination of the conventional backstage story, which is played for comedy angles, and filmusical technique, that is up to best standards...Audiences will quickly and cheerfully respond to the gayety [sic] which pervades the film. . . . It’s the Gus Edwards repertoire of pop tunes which gives the film zest and the feeling that yesterday is worth remembering. ‘School Days’ is recreated in an elaborate production number, including an interpolation when Crosby, speaking directly from the screen to the film audience, invites and obtains a spirited if somewhat vocally uncertain choral participation."
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Biography
, Musical, Comedy
Director(s):
Roy Del Ruth
Producer(s):
Charles R. Rogers
Cast
:
Bing Crosby as Larry Earl
Louise Campbell as Mary
Linda Ware as Jane Gray
Ned Sparks as 'Speed' King
Laura Hope Crews as Carlotta Salvini
Janet Waldo as Stella
Walter Damrosch as Walter Damrosch
Thurston Hall as Mr. Proctor
Clara Blandick as Miss Esther Jones
Oscar O'Shea as Mr. Flannigan
John Gallaudet as Duke
Ben Welden as Joe Gimlick
Emory Parnell as Mr. Olson
Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. Riley
Bodil Rosing as Mrs. Swanson
Paul Stanton as Mr. Coyle
Morgan Wallace as Lou Morris
Richard Denning as Assistant Dance Director
Joseph Crehan as Old Gentleman
Ethel Griffies as Voice Teacher
Frank Faylen as First Reporter
Billy Gilbert as Steel Worker
and others...
Musical Numbers
:
"Jimmy Valentine" (Edward Madden / Gus Edwards) sung by Bing Crosby.
"A Man and His Dream" (James V. Monaco. Johnny Burke) sung by Bing Crosby.
"If I Was a Millionaire" (Will D. Cobb / Gus Edwards) sung by Bing Crosby and children.
"Go Fly a Kite" (James V. Monaco / Johnny Burke) sung by Bing Crosby and children.
"I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" sung by Bing Crosby.
"Sunbonnet Sue" (Will D. Cobb / Gus Edwards) sung by children
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" sung by Bing Crosby and children.
"Darktown Strutters' Ball" sung by Linda Ware
"An Apple for the Teacher" sung by Linda Ware, Bing Crosby and children.
"School Days" sung by Linda Ware, Bing Crosby and children.
"Waltz of the Flowers" sung by Linda Ware
"Still the Bluebird Sings" (James V. Monaco / Johnny Burke) sung by Bing Crosby and children.
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 Louise Campbell:
Louise Campbell was an actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. She married in 1937, and then made a few more movies, and pretty much retired in 1940, coming out of retirement for two movies in the late 1940s. Some of her movies include: Men With Wings,
The Buccaneer
, and Bulldog Drummond Comes Back. She passed away in 1997 at the age of 86.
More Info on Linda Ware
:
Linda Ware was an actress and singer from the 1930s to the 1940s. She only appeared in two movies:
The Star Maker
, and Paper Bullets. She passed away in 1975 at the age of 50.
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).
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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