Going Places, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagan

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Going Places, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagan
Going Places, 1938, Movie Glass Slide, Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Ronald Reagan
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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, romance feature, "Going Places".
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:
Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who wants to advertise their line of riding clothes. Since they have the rights to famous jockey Peter Randall, who is in Australia, Peter will impersonate him at the Steeple Chase. At the event, he is invited to a party by Cora and sees young Ellen. Since all Ellen and Peter have in common is horses, he continues the charade to woo her. But two gamblers named Maxie and Duke, try to make money on the race by fixing him up with the wild 'Jeepers Creepers'. That horse can jump high and run like the wind, but he will only calm down enough to be ridden when Gabriel plays his trumpet.
Trivia:
The on-screen performance of "Say It with a Kiss" (music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer), featuring Maxine Sullivan, Louis Armstrong (trumpet only) and Dick Powell, was cut from this film. The melody is played in the background. Victor Records issued a solo version by Miss Sullivan. In addition, notable recordings were made by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra for Brunswick, and by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (vocal by Helen Forrest) for Bluebird. Another Mercer-Warren song, "They Say," was written for the film but deleted from the final cut; it was supposed to be Dick Powell's big ballad feature but in the end survived only instrumentally in the background score. It too was recorded by Artie Shaw with Helen Forrest, and Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday, and was also recorded by Ethel Waters.
Dorothy Dandridge, 15 years old during filming and one of The Dandridge Sisters, performed in the "Mutiny in the Nursery" production number (music by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren, lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Other members of The Dandridge Sisters were Dorothy's 17-year-old sister Vivian Dandridge and their friend Etta Jones.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Jeepers Creepers", premiered in this movie by Louis Armstrong, who sings it to a horse.
The song "Jeepers Creepers" was nominated for the American Film Institute list AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs.
Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren won an Oscar nomination for Best Song for "Jeepers Creepers". The song later would be sung in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), The Day of the Locust (1975), The Cheap Detective (1978) and the horror thriller Jeepers Creepers (2001).
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1938
Genre:
Comedy, Musical, Romance, Horse Racing, Sports
Director(s):
Ray Enright
Producer(s):
Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
Cast
:
Dick Powell as Peter Mason
Anita Louise as Ellen Parker
Ronald Reagan as Jack Withering
Allen Jenkins as "Droopy"
Walter Catlett as Franklin Dexter
Harold Huber as Maxie Miller
Larry Williams as Frank Kendall
Thurston Hall as Col. Harvey Withering
Minna Gombell as Cora Withering
Joyce Compton as The Colonel's Mistress
Robert Warwick as Walter Frome
John Ridgely as Desk Clerk
Joe Cunningham as Hotel Night Clerk
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as George
George Reed as Withering's Butler
Louis Armstrong as Gabriel the Trainer
Maxine Sullivan as Specialty Singer
unbilled players include Ward Bond and the Dandridge Sisters
More Info on Dick Powell
:
Dick Powell was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Just Around the Corner, Gold Diggers of 1933, Murder, My Sweet,
Footlight Parade
, and The Bad and the Beautiful. He was a light romantic musical star in the 1930s (and he released several albums during this period), and then he completely "reinvented" himself in the 1940s, playing tough guys in movies such as "
Murder, My Sweet
"! He was married to actresses Joan Blondell and June Allyson. He was one of the many actors who died from cancer after filming the 1956 film The Conqueror, which was shot downwind from nuclear weapons testing sites. He passed away in 1963 at the age of 58.
In the 1950s, Powell was one of the founders of Four Star Television, along with Charles Boyer, David Niven, and Ida Lupino. He appeared in and supervised several shows for that company. Powell played the role of Willie Dante in Four Star Playhouse, in episodes entitled "
Dante's Inferno
" (1952), "The Squeeze" (1953), "The Hard Way" (1953), and "
The House Always Wins
" (1955). In 1961, Howard Duff, husband of Ida Lupino, assumed the Dante role in a short-lived NBC adventure series Dante, set at a San Francisco nightclub called "Dante's Inferno".
More Info on Anita Louise
:
Anita Louise was an actress from the 1920s to the 1970s. She came to prominence in the mid 1930s at Warner Bros., but she had actually been in movies since 1922, when she was a 7 year-old child actress, and she successfully made the transition to a teen actress, and then an adult leading lady (one of the very few child stars to ever do this, joining
Natalie Wood
, and a very select few others)! She was also a
WAMPAS
Baby Star in 1931. Some of her movies include:
The Story of Louis Pasteur
, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Dream Comes True, Tovarich, The Little Princess, and Marie Antoinette. She passed away in 1970 at the age of 50 after a stroke.
More Info on Ronald Reagan
:
Ronald Reagan was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
Knute Rockne: All American
, Kings Row, Dark Victory, Bedtime for Bonzo,
Santa Fe Trail
, Hellcats of the Navy and scores of others. Reagan landed fewer film roles in the late 1950s and moved into television. He was hired as the host of General Electric Theater, a series of weekly dramas that became very popular.
He is far better remembered for his later political career and for his "Reagan Revolution" which transformed politics and brought the Republican party on an equal footing with the Democratic party, after having been dominated by the Democrats for many years! He was
Govenor of California
1967-1975 and the
40th President of the United States
1981-1989. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 93 after battling Alzheimer's for many years.
More Info on Allen Jenkins
:
Allen Jenkins was a character actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in dozens of Warner Bros. movies of the 1930s, including many with James Cagney. He moved to MGM in the late 1930s and appeared in many movies there, again often with top stars. He never hit the big time but was in many great movies. Jenkins passed away in 1974 at the age of 74.
More Info on Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
:
Edmund Lincoln Anderson (September 18, 1905 – February 28, 1977) was an American comedian and actor. To a generation of early radio and television comedy he was known as "Rochester".
Anderson got his start in show business as a teenager on the vaudeville circuit. In the early 1930s, he transitioned into films and radio. In 1937, he began his most famous role of Rochester van Jones, usually known simply as "Rochester", the valet of Jack Benny, on his NBC radio show
The Jack Benny Program
. Anderson became the first African American to have a regular role on a nationwide radio program. When the series moved to CBS television in 1950, Anderson continued in the role until the series' end in 1965.
After the series ended, Anderson remained active with guest starring roles on television and voice work in animated series. He was also an avid horse-racing fan who owned several race horses and worked as a horse trainer at the Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Anderson was married twice and had four children. He died of heart disease in February 1977 at the age of 71.
More Info on Louis Armstrong
:
Louis Armstrong (also known as Satchmo or Pops) was a legendary jazz trumpeter, singer and actor from the 1910s to the 1970s. Some of his songs include:
Jeepers Creepers
, Mack the Knife,
Hello Dolly
, and St. Louis Blues. He passed away in 1971 at the age of 69.
More Info on Ward Bond
:
Ward Bond was born in Benkelman, Nebraska in 1903. His family moved to Denver when he was a teen, and he went to college at USC. There this big burly man became a football player, and he became best friends with fellow teammate John Wayne (the two would go to bars, get drunk, and get into fights!). When Wayne started playing bit parts in movies in 1929, so did Bond. Wayne got his big break in The Big Trail in 1930, but Bond continued mostly playing bit parts for years before getting more significant roles. In 1929, John Ford spotted Bond, and gave him a speaking role in Salute in 1929, and he kept casting him in many of his movies, a total of 26 in all, perhaps the most any one actor made with a single director. Bond appeared in around 270 movies over a 30 year period, one of the most of any actor. At his peak, he made 10 to 20 films every year, and he was in 30 movies in 1935 alone! He took any part that was offered him, continuing to take tiny bit parts after he had played some major roles.
Some of his best roles were in
Wagon Master
, The Quiet Man, The Searchers,
The Maltese Falcon
, Johnny Guitar,
It's a Wonderful Life
, and Rio Bravo. He appeared in 11 of the movies that were nominated for Best Picture, and in 7 of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies. Bond had epilepsy, which kept him out of military service, but that was never revealed until after his death. He was extremely right wing politically, as were Wayne and Ford, and he actively campaigned against Communists in movies in the 1950s, earning him the hatred of liberals. In 1957, he finally achieved stardom, but it was as the lead in the
TV
show Wagon Train, which ran for four years. While he was still starring on the show, Bond had a massive heart attack and passed away in 1960, at 57. John Wayne gave the eulogy at his funeral.
More Info on The Dandridge Sisters
:
The Dandridge Sisters were an American all-girl singing trio, started in 1934 in Los Angeles, California, and ended in 1940, comprising the sisters Vivian and Dorothy Dandridge together with their friend Etta Jones (not the more well-known jazz vocalist, Etta Jones). They had a short period of fame traveling around the United States performing for night clubs, theatres, radio shows, and eventually left the US to tour in Europe. Dorothy Dandridge, however, decided to become a solo artist, so the band split up and each woman then pursued small projects individually.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear)
. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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