Golden Boy, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden - Boxing

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Golden Boy, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden - Boxing
Golden Boy, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden - Boxing
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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 1939, drama feature, "Golden Boy".
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
,
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
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,
SOLD
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:
Golden Boy is a 1939 American drama romance sports film directed by Rouben Mamoulian. It is based on the 1937 play of the same title by Clifford Odets.
Joe Bonaparte's father wants him to pursue his musical talent; but Joe wants to be a boxer. Persuading near-bankrupt manager Tom Moody to give him a chance, Joe quickly rises in his new profession. When he has second thoughts Moody's girl Lorna uses feminine wiles to keep him boxing. But when tough gangster Eddie Fuseli wants to "buy a piece" of Joe, Lorna herself begins to have second thoughts...for that and other reasons. Is it too late?
Trivia
:
William Holden was so grateful to Barbara Stanwyck for her insistence on casting him in Golden Boy (1939), his first big role, that he reportedly sent her flowers every year on the anniversary of the first day of the filming.
William Holden was considered not to be up to the role in the film by the studio; however, Barbara Stanwyck urged producers to keep him in the picture, and succeeded. In 1978, at the The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978), before starting the presentation of the sound award, Holden publicly thanked Stanwyck, who was his co-presenter, for what she did."Oh Bill!" she sighed, choking up with tears.
When Barbara Stanwyck won her Honorary Academy Award in 1982, she acknowledged the passing of William Holden just four months earlier saying, "He always wished that I would get an Oscar and so, tonight, my Golden Boy, you got your wish!"
To convincingly portray a boxer who was also a violinist, William Holden took boxing and violin lessons all day every day for a week before production began. He continued to prepare during the 11 weeks of filming by boxing two hours daily and practicing the violin for 1-1/2 hours each night so his fingering of the instrument would be convincing.
Lee J. Cobb, playing 20-year-old William Holden's middle-aged father, was actually only 27.
Studio:
Columbia Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Sport - Boxing
Director(s):
Rouben Mamoulian
Producer(s):
William Perlberg
Cast
:
Barbara Stanwyck as Lorna Moon
Adolphe Menjou as Tom Moody
William Holden as Joe Bonaparte
Lee J. Cobb as Mr. Bonaparte
Joseph Calleia as Eddie Fuseli
Sam Levene as Siggie
Edward Brophy as Roxy Lewis (credited as Edward S. Brophy)
Beatrice Blinn as Anna
William H. Strauss as Mr. Carp
Don Beddoe as Borneo
James "Cannonball" Green plays Chocolate Drop, Joe's final opponent, in an uncredited role.
More Info on Barbara Stanwyck:
Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens) was a major female star from the 1920s to the 1980s. She was an immediate hit in
sexy "bad girl"
parts in the very early 1930s, and in 1931, she was described as "the girl with the Mona Lisa smile". Some of her movies include: Stella Dallas (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Double Indemnity (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
The Lady Eve
, Meet John Doe, Ball Of Fire (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Sorry, Wrong Number (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, and scores of others! In her later years, she took a starring role on TV's "
The Big Valley
", and "The Colbys" (as spin-off of "Dynasty"). She passed away in 1990 at the age of 82
More Info on Adolphe Menjou:
Adolphe Menjou was an actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. He was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh (even though he seemed European!) to a French father and an Irish mother, and his father disapproved of show business, but while at college, Adolphe changed his major to liberal arts and started appearing in plays. He moved to New York when he was 25, but couldn't make it on Broadway, and appeared in minor movies in the middle 1910s. He served in
World War I
and then afterwards went behind the camera working as a production manager. In 1921, he moved to Hollywood, and got leading roles in movies and became a major star throughout the 1920s and 1930s, and then he seamlessly switched to character roles. He had a wonderful part in
Paths of Glory
as the slimy General Broulard near the end of his career. Some of his other movies include:
Little Miss Marker
, Golden Boy, The Marriage Circle, and
Stage Door
. He passed away in 1963 at the age of 73.
More Info on William Holden
:
William Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois in 1918, but his family moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. After high school, he went to Pasadena Junior College and started acting. He was in a play where he was seen by a talent scout from Paramount Pictures in 1937, who signed him to a contract.
After two uncredited parts, he had his first giant break when he was given the lead in Columbia's
Golden Boy
, about a young man who is torn between being a violinist or a boxer (it had been written by Clifford Odets for John Garfield).
The star of the movie was Barbara Stanwyck, and she insisted on casting Holden, and after filming began the studio didn't like him, but Stanwyck insisted he be kept, and he was!
Holden made 9 not very memorable film appearances over the next 4 years, and then joined the Army Air Force in 1943. After the war, he picked up where he had left off, making another 10 not so great movies, but then in 1950, he got his second big break when he was given the part of Joe Gillis in
Sunset Blvd
. (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film)
Holden was wonderful, as was the movie, which is surely one of the handful of finest movies ever made, That same year he played the lead in Born Yesterday, opposite Judy Holliday, and he was a major star. While he still made a few "lesser" movies, he had a remarkable run of great ones in a short period, including
Stalag 17
(for which he won the Best Actor Oscar), Executive Suite,
Sabrina
, The Country Girl, The Bridges at Toko-Ri, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, and
Picnic
, all of which were made in a three year period!
In 1957, Columbia was about to make
The Bridge on the River Kwai
, and they felt they badly needed a major American star to increase the box office of this story of English prisoners of war in a Japanese prison camp. They turned to Holden, who was able to negotiate a salary of 0,000, plus 10% of the gross, especially remarkable because the entire budget for the movie was three million dollars, and the bridge itself cost 0,000 to build. Of course the movie was a huge success, and Holden made a fortune from his deal.
In 1959, Holden and co-star John Wayne used their considerable box office clout to negotiate a 5,000 contract, plus 20% of the profits for each of them for making
The Horse Soldiers
, and that deal marked the beginning of major stars getting out of this world deals. Ironically, the movie was a real dud!
In the late 1960s, Holden's career appeared to be waning, but he made the great move of taking the lead in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, and Holden and the movie were wonderful. He was a great aging street cop Bumper Morgan in TV's The Blue Knight, and he took a supporting role in
The Towering Inferno
.
He had one more great role in him, as Max Schumacher in
Network
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1976. He starred with Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway (and an incredible supporting cast), and the movie was wonderful on all levels!
William Holden passed away in 1981 at the age of 63. He is not considered one of the all-time greatest actors by many, and his name does not come to mind when you think of the most charismatic actors ever, and yet he was in more truly great movies playing very different roles than almost any other actor (perhaps second only to Humphrey Bogart). He left behind a remarkable body of work, and I highly recommend all the movies named above!
More Info on Lee J. Cobb
:
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 – February 11, 1976) was an American actor. He played the role of Willy Loman in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman under the direction of Elia Kazan. He also performed in
On the Waterfront
(1954), 12 Angry Men (1957), and
The Exorcist
(1973). On television, Cobb starred in the first four seasons of the Western series
The Virginian
. He often played arrogant, intimidating and abrasive characters, but he also acted as respectable figures such as judges. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for The Brothers Karamazov (1958) and On the Waterfront (1954).
More Info on Joseph Calleia
:
Joseph Calleia was a Maltese actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: The Divorce Racket,
The Alamo
, The Glass Key, Touch of Evil, and
Gilda
. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 78.
More Info on Edward Brophy
:
Edward Brophy was a character actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Freaks (as Rollo Brother), Golden Boy, The Falcon in San Francisco (as Goldie Locke), and The Thin Man Goes Home. He passed away in 1960 at the age of 65.
More Info on Sam Levene
:
Sam Levene was born in Russia, but came to the United States when he was two years old. He grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and aspired to be a physician. He was a Broadway and film actor who in a career spanning more than five decades created some of the most legendary comedic roles in American theatrical history, including Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls (1950), Max Kane in
Dinner at Eight
(1932), Patsy in Three Men on a Horse (1935), Gordon Miller in Room Service (1937), Sidney Black in Light Up the Sky (1948), Horace Vandergelder in The Matchmaker (1954), and Al Lewis in
The Sunshine Boys
(1972). He also established himself as one of the great noir stalwarts with a long list of film noir credits, including The Killers, Crossfire, The Sweet Smell of Success and many others. Over his career he appeared in 37 Broadway shows, of which 33 were original Broadway productions. He also appeared in two major English productions: the first English production of Guys and Dolls in 1953 and the original production of Thorton Wilder's The Matchmaker (1954). In 1954 Sam Levene originated the role of Horace Vandergelder in the world premiere production of Tyrone Guthrie's
The Matchmaker
(1954), initially at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland and performed that role for 274 performances at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London's West End. He passed away in 1980 at the age of 75.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
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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