Desert Hawk, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Yvonne DeCarlo, Richard Greene,

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Desert Hawk, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Yvonne DeCarlo, Richard Greene,
Desert Hawk, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Yvonne DeCarlo, Richard Greene,
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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, action adventure feature, "Desert Hawk".
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:
An arranged marriage forces Arabian Princess Sharahazade to marry Prince Murad, a cruel ruler. A thief known as the Desert Hawk hears about the wedding, disguises himself as Murad in order to steal the wedding gifts. The next morning the real Murad shows up and finding the dowry gone orders his men to make it appear that the Desert Hawk has massacred the locals.
When the princess learns she has been tricked she changes clothes with one of her maids, who is then mistaken for the princess and murdered. The servants, along with the disguised princess, are rounded up and sold into slavery. The Desert Hawk purchases her at the slave market.
Meanwhile, Murad in a bid to consolidate his power stirs up trouble a neighbour, telling the princess's father that the neighbour has been aiding the Desert Hawk.
The princess' father entrusts Murad to avenge his daughter and murdered people enabling him to pursue the Desert Hawk to try to get the Princess and power for himself.
Trivia
:
Characters are Muslims, 600 years before the time of the founder Mohammed.
At the start of the movie the Narrator sets the action as taking place Two thousand years ago,as we see a band of horsemen charging across the screen,some of whom are discharging firearms into the air.
Universal bought the story in January 1950.
The film was envisioned as a vehicle for Yvonne de Carlo.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr was sought for the male lead. The role eventually went to Richard Greene, returning to Hollywood after two years in Britain.
Jackie Gleason signed to play a comic support role.
Universal contract player Rock Hudson, who had just impressed in Winchester 73, was also cast.
Director de Cordova said Greene was "everything a man or woman could want in a desert hero."
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Date:
1950
Genre:
Action, Adventure, Romance
Director(s):
Frederick De Cordova
Producer(s):
Leonard Goldstein
Cast
:
Yvonne De Carlo as Princess Scheherazade
Richard Greene as Omar aka The Desert Hawk
Jackie Gleason as Aladdin
George Macready as Prince Murad
Rock Hudson as Captain Ras
Carl Esmond as Kibar
Joe Besser as Prince Sinbad
Anne P. Kramer as Yasmin
Marc Lawrence as Samad
Lois Andrews as Maznah
Frank Puglia as Ahmed Bey
Lucille Barkley as Undine
Donald Randolph as Caliph
Ian MacDonald as Yussef
More Info on Yvonne De Carlo
:
Yvonne De Carlo was a Canadian actress from the 1940s to the 1990s. She was a romantic
leading
lady who starred in nearly one hundred movies in the 1940s and 1950s. She was very striking, and was somewhat "
exotic
". This was not surprising, since her mother was of Italian-Scottish ancestry and her father was a half-Maori New Zealander! Oddly, she will forever be best remembered as Lily Munster in TV's "
The Munsters
"! Some of her other movies include: Salome Where She Danced, Song of Scheherazade, Slave Girl, The Ten Commandments (as Sephora), Brute Force, and This Gun for Hire. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 84.
More Info on Richard Greene:
Richard Greene was an English actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
, The Little Princess, Stanley and Livingstone,
Tales From the Crypt
, and Kentucky. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 66.
More Info on Jackie Gleason
:
Jackie Gleason was born Herbert John Gleason in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in New York City in 1916. His father left his family when he was a boy, and his mother died when he was a teenager. He grew up very poor, and worked at all sorts of odd jobs after dropping out of school. He had some bit parts in movies in the early 1940s, but had little success, and started a night club act. In 1949, it LOOKED like he got his big break when he was cast as the lead in the TV version of
The Life of Riley
(because William Bendix was too busy with his movie career). But Gleason bombed out, and only 12 shows aired before it was cancelled, surprising, because it had been a huge radio hit (and in 1953 Bendix was finally free to star, and the show ran for 6 years!).
In 1950, Gleason got another shot at his own TV show, and this was Cavalcade of Stars, a variety show for the fledgling DuMont network, and it was successful enough that CBS hired him away in 1952 (and re-named the show). This show had production numbers and skits with Gleason's memorable characters, including
Reginald Van Gleason
III
, Joe the Bartender, and of course,
Ralph Kramden
, among others. If you don't know who Ralph Kramden is, go out and rent some of the
Honeymooners
episodes and watch the funniest TV show ever created! If you do know, I don't need to explain about that show. The Jackie Gleason show continued on TV until 1957, and Gleason brought back the show and The Honeymooners in various forms in the 1960s and 1970s. In those years he also appeared in a number movies, some excellent, and some not so good.
To my mind, his two best performances were as
Minnesota Fats
in Robert Rossen's The Hustler (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1961, and as Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter in Blake Edwards' Soldier in the Rain in 1963. Gleason had a major hit in 1977's comedy
Smokey and the Bandit
, where he played Sheriff Buford T. Justice. He continued acting until 1986, the year before he passed away at the age of 71.
More Info on Lois Andrews
:
Lois Andrews was an actress from the 1940s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include: Dixie Dugan (in the title role), Rustlers, The Desert Hawk, and Meet Me After the Show. But what Miss Andrews is likely best remembered for is what happened when she was 15 (but very "advanced" for her age physically). Out of the blue, on March 22, 1940, she announced her "engagement" to comedian George Jessel, who was 40 at the time, saying "I love Mr. Jessel very much". When Mr. Jessel was asked for a comment, he said "It depends on her mother and perhaps a little more thought" and he added that reports that they would be married were "premature". Remarkably, Mr. Jessel, who had been married twice before, DID marry young Miss Andrews, and the marriage lasted three years and produced a child. She then married a man two years later, and that marriage was annulled, and then married actor Steve Brodie right after, which resulted in two children and a 4 year marriage. Finally, in 1953, when she was 27, she married for the fourth time, this time to a non-actor, and that marriage stuck, lasting she passed away in 1968 at the age of 44 from lung cancer.
More Info on George Macready
:
George Macready was an actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. He had very memorable movies in
Gilda
and Paths of Glory, but he appeared in scores of other movies! He passed away in 1973 at the age of 73.
More Info on Rock Hudson
:
Rock Hudson was born in 1925. He was 6'4" (or was he 6'5"?) and he looked like a movie star, and it didn't take him long to become one. Some of his movies include:
Giant
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Seconds, and Ice Station Zebra. He appeared in around 70 movies, and starred in a TV series,
McMillan & Wife
, in the 1970s. He was a gay homosexual man at a time when one couldn't reveal that and continue in movies, and he had to hide that throughout his career (even having a sham marriage with interior designer Phyllis Gates in the 1950s), until he developed AIDS and could no longer hide it. When he publicly admitted that he had AIDS, it changed the public perception of the disease (particularly because Nancy Reagan was a very good friend of his and her husband was the President of the United States), and helped gain the funding and research that has led to so many advances in fighting it. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 59 from complications from AIDS.
More Info on Frededrick De Cordova
:
Frederick Timmins de Cordova (October 27, 1910 – September 15, 2001) was an American stage, motion picture and television director and producer. He is best known for his work on
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
.
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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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