There's Always A Woman, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell

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There's Always A Woman, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell
There's Always A Woman, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell
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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 1938, comedy feature, "There's Always A Woman".
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
,
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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,
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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:
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Trivia
:
As originally shot, the script contained a sizable role for Rita Hayworth. When, however, it was decided that this film was to be the first of a series, the studio eliminated Hayworth's role rather than have a third major character who, like Joan Blondell and Melvyn Douglas, would be committed to the series. In any event, Blondell withdrew from the planned series, and all but three seconds of Hayworth's role landed on the cutting-room floor. She speaks two words on-screen and 5 words on an intercom off-screen.
First of three films from 1938-9 that Columbia paired Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell. The others being Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) and The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939). They would not work together again until MGM's Advance to the Rear (1964).
Melvyn Douglas calls Joan Blondell " The little gold digger " - she starred in the series of Gold Digger films for Warner Bros.
Studio:
Columbia Picture
Date:
1938
Genre:
Comedy, Mystery
Director(s):
Alexander Hall
Producer(s):
William Perlberg
Cast
:
Joan Blondell as Sally Reardon
Melvyn Douglas as William Reardon
Mary Astor as Lola Fraser
Frances Drake as Anne Calhoun
Jerome Cowan as Nick Shane
Robert Paige as Jerry Marlowe
Thurston Hall as District Attorney
Pierre Watkin as Mr. Ketterling
Walter Kingsford as Grigson
Lester Matthews as Walter Fraser
Rita Hayworth as Mary, Ketterling's secretary (uncredited)
More Info on Joan Blondell:
Joan Blondell was a popular Warner Bros. actress from the 1930s to the 1980s, often in movies with James Cagney. She was born "Rose Joan Blondell" in 1906, and under the name "Rosebud Blondell" she won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant and placed fourth for Miss America in Atlantic City that same year. Placed under contract by Warners in 1930, she moved to Hollywood where studio boss Jack Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes", but Blondell refused. She appeared in lots of Warner Bros movies of the 1930s, and she helped define what "pre-Code" means! She also was one of the very few sexy actresses who not only did not die young, but she also successfully transitioned to character roles, and she had significant character roles in all the decades from the 1940s through the late 1970s! Some of her movies include: Nightmare Alley, The Public Enemy, Footlight Parade, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Blue Veil (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Blonde Crazy. She passed away in 1979 at the age of 73.
More Info on Melvyn Douglas
:
Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg in Macon, Georgia in 1901. His father was a Russian Jewish concert pianist who taught piano at colleges and his mother was of Scottish heritage. Melvyn knew he wanted to be an actor, and he dropped out of high school and joined touring stock companies. In 1928, he made a Broadway debut in A Free Soul playing the same part Clark Gable would play in the 1931 movie version. In 1930, he starred in Tonight or Never, and not only was the play a big success, but he acted with Helen Gahagan, and they married the next year (he had been previously married from 1925 to 1930). His wife continued on the stage, but made only one movie, She, in 1935. He made the movie version of Tonight or Never in 1931, and stayed in Hollywood. He had the rare ability to play leads in both dramas and comedy (and early in his career he made several low budget horror movies!). He took both leading and supporting roles. Perhaps his best remembered movie from this period was opposite Greta Garbo in Ninotchka. He joined the Army during World War II, and his wife, now known as Helen Gahagan Douglas, was elected to Congress for the first of three terms. After the war, Douglas started taking older supporting roles in movies such as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But he was caught up in the HUAAC hearings, and while he wasn't blacklisted, he was "gray listed" meaning that the Hollywood studios would not hire him. In 1950, his wife ran for the U.S. Senate against young Richard Nixon, and Nixon accused her of being "soft" on Communism (he said she was "pink right down to her underwear") and she lost. Like so many others caught up in the Red hysteria, Douglas spent most of the 1950s on television, and on the stage. He won a Tony Award for his performance in The Best Man in 1960, and he won an Emmy for his 1967 TV role role in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Douglas made a strong return to movies in 1962 in Billy Budd, and the following year he was magnificent in Hud (opposite equally magnificent Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Brandon De Wilde). Douglas and Neal won Oscars, and Newman only lost because Sidney Poitier won his groundbreaking Oscar for Lillies of the Field. If you have never seen this wonderful movie, I urge you to see it ASAP! Douglas continued giving strong performances as he grew older, and perhaps his finest of his career was in I Never Sang For My Father (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1970, opposite Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. In 1979, he won a second Oscar for Being There. In 1980, his wife of nearly 50 years passed away, and Douglas passed away the following year. There have been few actors who have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy, as Douglas did. There have been few who were equally comfortable in comedy and drama, and who were willing to alternate between lead roles and supporting ones, and few who were able to pass seamlessly from young actor to middle aged actor to old actor, and yet Melvyn Douglas is the only one I can think of who did all these rare feats, and did them superbly!
More Info on Mary Astor
:
Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois in 1906, and was far from an overnight success. Her working class parents saw her as a way to improve their life, and entered her into several beauty contests when she was barely a teen. She also acted on the amateur stage. At 13 she was runner-up in a national beauty contest from Motion Picture Magazine, which made her father move to New York, where she was signed to a contract by Paramount, and her father became her manager, and he stayed in that position for ten years. She made her first movie when she was just 14, and she made a total of ten movies while she was 14 or 15, but they were all minor or uncredited roles. Right after she turned 16, she amazingly was given the starring role in a movie called "The Rapids", and she definitely played the romantic lead, in spite of her tender years, but we have been unable to find out more information about this movie! Two years later, she had a major success appearing in "Beau Brummel" opposite John Barrymore in 1924 (at Barrymore's request), and the 18 year old Mary had an affair with the 42 year old Barrymore. Her parents broke off the affair with Barrymore and virtually kept her a prisoner in the lavish home they bought with her ,500 a week earnings (she received only a weekly allowance!). She had some success in her movies over the following years, but the advent of sound looked like it might be a career ender for her (and it was for so many actors at that time), because she failed a "sound test" and was released from her contract! But she took voice and singing lessons, and after appearing in a successful stage play, she was re-hired. She had married a director in 1929, but he was killed in a plane crash in 1930, which gave her a nervous breakdown. She was treated by a doctor, whom she married the following year! In 1932 she got a lead role (opposite Clark Gable and Jean Harlow) in Red Dust. She had a major success in The Kennel Murder Case, opposite William Powell. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman, and other celebrities. In 1935, her doctor husband divorced her, and due to her behavior, asked for custody of their young daughter. He had stolen her diary which documented her affair with Kaufman. While the custody hearing was going on she was filming Dodsworth (as Edith Cortright), and rather than hurt her career, the scandal seemed to help it! In 1937 she moved back to New York, where she acted on the stage and appeared on radio. In 1941, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Great Lie" (Bette Davis helped her get the part, and they remained good friends for life), and had her most memorable role that same year in "The Maltese Falcon" as Brigid O'Shaughnessy. She signed a contract with MGM, which gave her some needed financial security, but which sadly did not give her many movies worthy of her great talent. In 1951 she finally accepted that she was an alcoholic, and that this had contributed to her promiscuity, and she left her fourth husband, and joined Alcoholics Anonymous and became a practicing Catholic. She continued acting until 1964 (one of her best later roles was in Return to Peyton Place in 1961), making a total of 123 movies, and she lived for another 21 years (16 of those at the Motion Picture Country Home) until she passed away in 1987 at the age of 81. Mary Astor was a charming. beautiful and very talented actress who never was in the first rank of leading ladies, likely mostly because of her turbulent private life, but she did leave behind many memorable performances, although most of the best of them were as a secondary performer, and not as the lead.
More Info on Francis Drake
:
Frances Drake was an actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. She appeared in 25 movies (including some of the most famous horror titles of the 1930s!) until 1942, when she retired. Some of her movies include: Bolero, Mad Love, Les Miserables, It's a Wonderful World, The Invisible Ray, and Forsaking All Others. Though born in the U.S., she went to finishing school in England, and stayed to appear on stage there. She made some Hollywood movies, and then she married an English aristocrat in 1939, and she made two more movies and retired. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 87.
More Info on Jerome Cowan
:
Jerome Cowan was an actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He is best remembered for playing Miles Archer, Humphrey Bogart's ill-fated partner, in The Maltese Falcon, and for playing the hapless district attorney in Miracle on 34th Street, who must prosecute Santa Claus. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 72.
More Info on Rita Hayworth
:
Rita Hayworth was born in 1918. During the early 1940s she was one of the greatest sex symbols the movies has ever had, most notably in the 1946 movie, Gilda. But she was born Margarita Cansino, and was originally a child dancer with her father. She later caught the attention of Harry Cohn at Columbia, who cast her as a sexy dancer in some late 1930s movies, first billing her as Rita Cansino, and then renaming her to Hayworth (her mother's maiden name). Cohn did all he could to get rid of her Spanish ethnicity, changing her name, having her dye her black hair red, and having her hairline raised! She made many memorable dance movies (including ones opposite both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly!), but she is probably best remembered for her five steamy melodramas opposite Glenn Ford. She had a tumultuous private life, marrying five times, most memorably to Orson Welles and Prince Aly Khan (this was before Grace Kelly married her prince!). Her most famous quote (explaining why she married so many times) was "Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me." She exhibited erratic behavior in her later years because she suffered from early Alzheimer's, which went undiagnosed for quite some time. Rita passed away in 1987 at the age of 68. In those later years, she was cared for by her daughter, Princess Yasmin Khan, who has also been a champion of raising money for Alzheimer's research. She is also best remembered for her roles in The Lady from Shanghai, Only Angels Have Wings, Separate Tables, Tales of Manhattan, and many others!
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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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