Annie Get Your Gun, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel

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Annie Get Your Gun, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
Annie Get Your Gun, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Betty Hutton, Howard Keel
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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, western musical comedy feature, "Annie Get Your Gun".
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:
A story very loosely based on the love story of Annie Oakley and Frank Butler who meet at a shooting match. Fabulous music although the lead characters have virtually nothing to do with the actual historical figures. Annie joins Frank Butler in Col. Cody's Wild West Show. They tour the world performing before Royalty as well as the public at large.
Trivia
:
Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical Technicolor comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin and a screenplay by Sidney Sheldon based on the 1946 stage musical of the same name, was directed by George Sidney.
Despite several production and casting problems (Judy Garland was fired from the lead role after a month of filming in which she clashed with the director and repeatedly showed up late or not at all), the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score and received three other nominations.
Star Betty Hutton was recognized with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.
Louis Calhern replaced Frank Morgan in the role of William F. Cody aka Buffalo Bill after Morgan died just as filming was getting under way. But if you look closely at Buffalo Bill's very first appearance on his horse, you will see a second of Frank Morgan before the shot of Calhern.
Judy Garland and Frank Morgan, who appeared together in The Wizard of Oz (1939), were scheduled to reappear together in this film. Garland was fired because of health problems, and Frank Morgan died shortly after filming began. As a result of this, Betty Hutton took over Judy Garland's role as Annie Oakley, and Louis Calhern succeeded Frank Morgan as William F. Cody aka Buffalo Bill.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1950
Genre:
Western Musical Comedy, Romance, Biography
Director(s):
George Sidney
Producer(s):
Arthur Freed
Cast
:
Betty Hutton as Annie Oakley
Howard Keel as Frank Butler
Louis Calhern as Col. William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
Keenan Wynn as Charlie Davenport
Benay Venuta as Dolly Tate
J. Carrol Naish as Chief Sitting Bull
Edward Arnold as Pawnee Bill
Clinton Sundberg as Foster Wilson
Evelyn Beresford as Queen Victoria (uncredited)
John War Eagle as Indian Brave (uncredited)
Chief Yowlachie as Little Horse (uncredited)
Musical Numbers
:
"Colonel Buffalo Bill" — Charlie, Dolly, Ensemble
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" — Annie, Siblings
"The Girl That I Marry" — Frank
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" — Annie
"There's No Business Like Show Business" — Frank, Buffalo Bill, Charlie Davenport, Annie with ensemble
"They Say It's Wonderful" — Annie, Frank
"There's No Business Like Show Business (Reprise)" — Annie
"My Defenses Are Down" — Frank, Ensemble
"I'm an Indian Too" — Annie
"I Got the Sun in the Morning" — Annie
"Anything You Can Do" - Annie, Frank
More Info on Betty Hutton:
Betty Hutton was an actress and singer from 1930s to the 1970s, primarily in musicals. Hutton was cast in a
Broadway
show, Two for the Show (1940) which ran for 124 performances. The show was produced by Buddy DeSylva, who then cast Hutton in
Panama Hattie
(1940–42). This was a major hit running for 501 performances. Some of her movies include:
Annie Get Your Gun
(as Annie Oakley), The Fleet's In, and
The Greatest Show on Earth
. Hutton got work in radio, appeared in Las Vegas where she had a great success. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz took a chance on Hutton in 1959, with their company Desilu Productions giving her a CBS sitcom, The Betty Hutton Show. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 86.
More Info on Howard Keel
:
Howard Keel was born Harry Clifford Keel in Gillespie, Illinois in 1919. His father was a coal miner and he grew up poor. His dad died when he was 11, and his mother moved to California, where Howard graduated high school and then worked first at a factory, and then as a salesman for
Douglas Aircraft Company
. At 20, he started taking voice lessons, and he performed publicly at 21. He was married for the first time in 1943 (he would be married two more times, but he would be single less than three months over the next 61 years!). In 1945, he got the part of understudy to John Raitt in the part of Billy Bigelow in
Carousel
, and he next became the understudy to Alfred Drake in the part of Curly in Oklahoma, and when that show travelled to England, Keel played the lead, to great acclaim. While there, he played a part in an English movie, The Small Voice, changing his first name to Howard. When he returned to the U.S. he was signed by MGM, and his first movie,
Annie Get Your Gun
, where he played Frank Butler to Betty Hutton's Annie Oakley was a big hit. He followed with both musicals and non-musicals (this very big and handsome man was a natural for roles in non-musical westerns, which were also quite popular at the time). Among his best movies were Show Boat (where he played Gaylord Ravenal) and my personal favorite,
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(where he played Adam Pontipee). As the cycle of musicals wound down in the mid-1950s, Keel made a few more western or action movies, but mostly performed on stage, often in summer stock, over the next two plus decades. In 1981, Jim Davis, who played the role of Jock Ewing on the hit TV show
Dallas
passed away, and the producers wanted to find another older male star to play a similar role as Clayton Farlow, and they cast Keel (who looked fantastic!), and he stayed with the show for the remainder of its run, which let him quit touring in shows, and gave him financial security. In 1988, Keel had heart bypass surgery, but stayed on Dallas. The show finally went off the air in 1991, and Keel continued to make some singing appearances. He passed away in 2004 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 J. Carrol Naish
:
J. Carrol Naish was an actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include:
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
, The Last Command, Sitting Bull,
Annie Get Your Gun
, and Gun Smoke. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 77.
More Info on Edward Arnold
:
Edward Arnold was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. Despite his large girth, he became a very successful character actor (and sometimes leading actor) in lots of 1930s and 1940s movies, lots of which were with Columbia Pictures, including several
Frank Capra
movies such as
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
, Meet John Doe, and You Can't Take it With You. He played Rex Stout's literary detective Nero Wolfe in a 1936 movie, and he was very memorable in 1935's
Crime and Punishment
, and he added much to every movie he was in! He passed away in 1956 at the age of 66.
More Info on Keenan Wynn
:
Keenan Wynn (born Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn) was an actor from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was the son of actor
Ed Wynn
, and the two appeared together for the first time in 1956 in the TV movie adaptation of
"Requiem for a Heavyweight"
. The director of that TV movie, Ralph Nelson, then made a really unusual fictionalized TV movie about that TV movie four years later, called "The Man in the Funny Suit", and it starred both Wynns once again. They also appeared together in Disney's "The Absent Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber". Some of his film roles include: Once Upon a Time in the West,
Dr. Strangelove
, Touch of Evil, A Piano for Mrs. Cimino, and Nashville. Wynn passed away in 1986 at the age of 70.
More Info on Irving Berlin
:
Irving Berlin was a Russian-born
Jewish
composer and lyricist from the 1900s to the 1970s. He is considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history, and just a few of his hundreds of songs include: Alexander's Ragtime Band,
White Christmas
, and
There's No Business Like Show Business
. He passed away in 1989 at the age of 101.
More Info on George Sidney
:
George Sidney was a director and producer from the 1940s to the 1960s. He spent a year directing
Our Gang
comedies at the tail end of that series, and he was the youngest director the series had! He then signed with MGM, and directed many of their shorts, and in the mid 1940s, graduated to directing feature films, including some top MGM musicals such as Anchors Aweigh,
Annie Get Your Gun
, and Show Boat. He directed several movies with Elvis Presley, including
Viva Las Vegas
. He was one of the pioneers of 3-D! In 1941, he directed one of the three MGM Pete Smith's Audioscopiks shorts, "Third Dimensional Murder". 3-D did not catch on then, but a decade later, it became massive in feature films! Sidney passed away in 2002 at the age of 85.
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Slide Condition: VG-EX+, Loose tape on one edge. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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