A Life of Her Own, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell

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A Life of Her Own, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell
A Life of Her Own, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell
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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 1950, melodrama feature, "A Life of Her Own".
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:
Small town Kansas girl, Lily James, is the latest model working for the Thomas Callaway Agency in New York City. Despite her small town roots, Lily is street-wise because of her tough growing up experiences, and as such she is a good judge of character. She believes she can escape her troubles through professional success. Because of her hard work ethic, she quickly does rise to the top of her profession. She attracts the attention of Steve Harleigh, a wealthy copper mine owner. Despite they both knowing that nothing can come between them, they fall in love. The issues are that he lives and works in Montana, and that he is already married. Steve feels guilty about his marital infidelity as his wife, Nora, is physically disabled from a car accident in which he was the cause. Lily has to decide if her own happiness is worth destroying the life of a woman - an invalid - she's never met.
Trivia
:
The ending in the original script had washed-up model Lily James, played by Lana Turner, at forty-five years of age working as a hotel maid. The original ending as filmed had Lily James committing suicide, following in the footsteps of Mary Ashton, the older model Lily meets earlier in the film who jumps to her death from a window. After filming finished in late March 1950 the film was shown to test audiences who gave such a negative reaction to this ending that retakes were done in mid-April 1950, to provide the film with the happier ending that's used in the finished film, much to the dismay of director George Cukor.
This film was a failure at the box office, resulting in a loss of 9,000 (.76M in 2016) for MGM according to studio records.
The establishing shot for New York City shows the former Hotel Astor at 1515 Broadway, between West 44th and 45th Streets. It was torn down in 1967 and replaced by the 54-story One Astor Plaza skyscraper which was completed in 1972.
Wendell Corey was replaced by Ray Milland because Lana Turner refused to play with him.
According to contemporary articles in Daily Variety Howard Keel, Cary Grant, George Murphy, James Cagney, James Mason, and Robert Ryan were all considered for the male lead in this film.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1950
Genre:
Romance, Melodrama, Love Triangle
Director(s):
George Cukor
Producer(s):
Voldemar Vetluguin
Cast
:
Lana Turner as Lily Brannel James
Ray Milland as Steve Harleigh
Tom Ewell as Tom Caraway
Louis Calhern as Jim Leversoe
Ann Dvorak as Mary Ashlon
Barry Sullivan as Lee Gorrance
Margaret Phillips as Nora Harleigh
Jean Hagen as Maggie Collins
Phyllis Kirk as Jerry
Sara Haden as Smitty
Hermes Pan as Specialty Dancer
More Info on Lana Turner
:
Lana Turner (born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner) was an actress from the 1930s to the 1990s. She was born in 1921 in Idaho, and her father was murdered when she was a young girl, and her mother moved to California. In 1937, she was discovered at a soda fountain (not Schwab's, but one close by), and she had a small role in 1937's "They Won't Forget", and she became very popular very quickly. She remained a top leading actress for over 20 years, though her turbulent personal life definitely affected her career (including the murder of her violent gangster lover, Johnny Stompanato, by her own 14 year old daughter Cheryl Crane, and also her eight husbands, the first of which was bandleader Artie Shaw, who himself was married eight times, including to Ava Gardner!). Some of her movies include:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
, Imitation of Life, The Bad and the Beautiful,
Peyton Place
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 74.
More Info on Ray Milland:
Ray Milland was born Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones in Wales in 1905. He spent 3 years as a guardsman with the
Royal Household Cavalry
in London, and then started appearing in English movies in 1928. He moved to Hollywood the following year and he had little success for several years, but after around five years, he found his niche playing the younger brother or the rival to the male lead. In the middle 1930s he started getting leads in romantic comedies or dramas to the type of leading ladies who did not want too strong of a male co-star! It seemed like his career would never get better than this, but in 1944 he surprised everyone with his very strong performance in Fritz Lang's Ministry of Fear, and the following year he got even more positive reviews for his role as the alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's
The Lost Weekend
, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1954, when Milland was pushing 50, he was offered the role of the duplicitous husband in Alfred Hitchcock's
Dial M for Murder
, and he gave one of the best performances of his career. But roles started drying up for the aging balding leading man, and he started taking many TV roles. He also took the lead roles in some truly dreadful low budget horror movies (including The Thing with Two Heads, where he played a rich white racist who had to spend the entire movie tied into a ridiculous body suit with giant black pro football player Rosey Grier!), although he did make a strong appearance as the father in Love Story, and he guest starred in two memorable Columbo episodes. Milland was a really first-rate actor, and when he had an important role for a top level director he proved he was as good as anyone, but sadly much of his career was spent on minor roles or in very minor movies. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 79.
More Info on Tom Ewell
:
Tom Ewell (pronounced "Yule") was a Broadway and film actor from the 1940s to the 1980s. He is best remembered for his role in
The Seven Year Itch
(opposite Marilyn Monroe). Some of his other movies include:
Adam's Rib
, and The Girl Can't Help It (opposite Jayne Mansfield). He passed away in 1994 at the age of 85.
More Info on Louis Calhern
:
Louis Calhern was an actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Notorious
, Duck Soup, Magnificent Yankee (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and the
Asphalt Jungle
. He is best remembered for his middle-aged roles, most notably in The Asphalt Jungle, but he started as a Broadway actor before World War I, then served in the war, and after he made a few films, but mostly was a Broadway actor until 1931 and then he worked steadily in movies, but he became more successful as he aged! He passed away in 1956 at the age of 61.
More Info on Ann Dvorak
:
Ann Dvorak was a mostly Warner Bros. actress from the 1910s to the 1950s. She first appeared in films at the age of 4, then later returned as an adult actress! Some of her movies include: Ramona (the 1916 version; in the title role), Dance, Fools, Dance,
Scarface
(where she played Paul Muni's sister), It's a Great Life, Just a Gigolo, and
The Return of Jesse James
. She passed away in 1979 at the age of 68.
More Info on Barry Sullivan
:
Barry Sullivan was a stage and movie actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was the seventh son of a seventh son, which was considered very fortunate at that time! He was born in 1912, and he had minor jobs until he got a Broadway role in 1936, and he continued on Broadway until 1940, when he moved to Hollywood, but he did not have much success there, and he returned to New York, where he resumed acting on the stage. He never became a major star either on Broadway or in the movies, but he became a highly successful secondary actor, and perhaps his best role was in 1952's "The Bad and the Beautiful". He appeared in 79 movies and 105 TV shows, and many Broadway shows, over a 51 year period. He passed away in 1994 at the age of 81.
More Info on Jean Hagen
:
Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen) was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. She is best remembered for her wonderful performance as Lina Lamont in
Singin' In The Rain
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and she was also memorable in
The Asphalt Jungle
(as Sterling Hayden's girlfriend). She was also the mother in the Danny Thomas TV sitcom "
Make Room for Daddy
". She passed away in 1977 at the age of 54.
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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