Invisible Stripes, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart,

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Invisible Stripes, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart,
Invisible Stripes, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, George Raft, Humphrey Bogart,
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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, "Invisible Stripes".
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:
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) and Chuck Martin (Humphrey Bogart) leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim (William Holden) to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again.
Trivia
:
At one point in this movie, George Raft meets Humphrey Bogart and Lee Patrick leaving a movie theater. The movie that's being shown, prominently advertised, is You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939) starring Bogart.
Although Dame Flora Robson played George Raft's mother, she was one year younger than he was.
According to William Holden, during the fight scene between the brothers, Holden accidentally hit George Raft in the eye with his head and opened a gash.
According to contemporary articles in The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Brothers bought the rights to the book as a vehicle for James Cagney and John Garfield. Humphrey Bogart replaced Cagney so that he could go on vacation, and William Holden was borrowed from Paramount Pictures.
This is the last movie by "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Brothers' control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid 1930s, pre 1960 after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture".
Studio:
First National Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Film-Noir
Director(s):
Lloyd Bacon
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner
Cast
:
George Raft as Cliff Taylor
Jane Bryan as Peggy
William Holden as Tim Taylor
Humphrey Bogart as Charles Martin
Flora Robson as Mrs. Taylor
Henry O'Neill as Parole Officer Masters
Paul Kelly as Ed Kruger
Lee Patrick as Molly Daniels
Marc Lawrence as Lefty Sloan
Joe Downing as Johnny Hudson
Tully Marshall as Old Peter
Margot Stevenson as Sue
Joseph Crehan as Mr. Chasen
Chester Clute as Mr. Butler
John Hamilton as Police Capt. Johnson
Frankie Thomas as Tommy McNeill
William Haade as Shrank
Emory Parnell as Policeman
Cast notes:
Leo Gorcey, who would later become known for playing "Slip Mahoney" in the Bowery Boys series of films, has a small part as the head stockroom boy.
More Info on George Raft:
George Raft (born George Ranft) was a legendary tough guy actor (specializing in crime and film noir roles) from the 1920s to the 1980s. Like James Cagney, he actually WAS born in a tough neighborhood in New York City, so his tough guy persona was honestly earned! Note that he first appeared in movies in minor roles in 1929, but it took three years and seven movies before he got his big break in Howard Hughes' "
Scarface
" (where he played Paul Muni's coin-flipping henchman). After that, he was rushed into six movies in the rest of 1932 alone, and he remained a major star (mostly in gangster roles) for many years. Some of his other movies include:
Each Dawn I Die
, Manpower, If I Had a Million, They Drive by Night, and
Some Like It Hot
(in a great cameo where he played a parody of his earlier gangster roles). He passed away in 1980 at the age of 79.
More Info on Jane Bryan:
Jane Bryan was an actress from the 1930s. She was a sort of protege to Bette Davis, and appeared in many Warner Bros. movies of the late 1930s. In 1939, she married successful businessman Justin Dart, who was 11 years older than she, and she completely retired from movies (Dart soon owned the Rexall Drug chain and became mega wealthy, and they raised three children together). Some of her movies include: The Old Maid, Kid Galahad,
Marked Woman
, Confession, and
Each Dawn I Die
. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 90.
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 Humphrey Bogart
:
Humphrey Bogart was born Christmas Day in New York City in 1899. Although he would become perhaps the greatest movie star of all time, his early life in no way predicted this, and he was well into his thirties before he had much success at all! His father, a surgeon, intended for him to become a doctor, but he was kicked out of college. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and managed a stage company in his early 20s. He began acting on the stage, but to no real success. In 1930 he got a Hollywood contract at Fox Pictures, but he had little success there, and they released him after two years. He returned to the stage, and in 1936 finally was noticed in the small but vital role in the stage production of
The Petrified Forest
, where he appeared with Leslie Howard. Howard was signed for the movie version of the play, and he insisted, over studio objections, that Bogart be cast as well (he sent a telegram to Warners that read "No Bogart, no Howard"). Bogart never forgot this great kindness, and he much later named his daughter "Leslie". While Bogart was well received in The Petrified Forest, it did not make him a first rank star (likely he was 36 and he had already failed in Hollywood years earlier), so he spent the next five years at Warner Bros appearing in 28 films, almost always in secondary roles, often as a gangster. Twice he played cowboys (in
Virginia City
and
The Oklahoma Kid
)! He played the title role in The Return of Doctor X, a second rate horror movie, and a wrestling promoter in Swing Your Lady. He was in the first two "
Dead End
" movies, but was overshadowed by the Dead End Kids. Bogart was now 40, and it seemed likely he would finish his career playing more and more minor roles. But in 1941 George Raft turned down the role of Roy "
Mad Dog
" Earle, an escaped legendary bank robber, and that role, along with the role of Sam Spade in
The Maltese Falcon
(which Warners was remaking for the second time in 10 years) FINALLY made Bogart a top star (Warners thought so little of him as these movies were being released that most of the movie paper advertising for The Maltese Falcon showed Bogart with his cropped white hair from
High Sierra!
).
Casablanca
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) followed the next year, along with other patriotic World War II movies. In 1944, Bogart, who was 44 and had been married three times, was cast opposite 19 year old newcomer (and Howard Hawks' protege) Lauren Bacall in
To Have and Have Not
, and Bogart left his wife and married Bacall the following year. They would make three more movies together (The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo) and have two children. Bogart had some of his very finest roles near the end of his career. In 1948 he starred as Fred C. Dobbs in
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
, in 1951 he was Charlie Allnut in
The African Queen
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and in 1954 he was Lt. Cmdr. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; remember how he used "geometric logic" to prove there was a duplicate key?). I can't see anyone not agreeing that these are among the three finest acting performances ever! Bogart died from throat cancer in 1957 at the age of 57. He made many other memorable movies others than the ones noted above, and I urge you to seek them out! But be aware that he also appeared in a goodly number of MUCH lesser movies as well (especially in the first ten years of his career, so be sure to read reviews before starting one of his movies!)
More Info on Flora Robson
:
Flora Robson was an English actress in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include:
Wuthering Heights
, The Sea Hawk, 55 Days in Peking,
Alice in Wonderland
, Saratoga Trunk (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Clash of the Titans. She passed away in 1984 at the age of 82.
More Info on Paul Kelly
:
Paul Kelly was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. He had one of the most remarkable lives of any Hollywood actor ever! He was a successful juvenile actor in the 1910s, and unlike almost every other juvenile of that time period, he successfully transitioned to adult roles. But he became best friends with a married couple Ray Raymond and Dorothy Mackaye in 1927, and he began an affair with Mackaye, and after a night of much drinking, Raymond began beating Mackaye, and Kelly beat Raymond so badly, he went in the hospital, and later died! Kelly was convicted of manslaughter, but the judge and jury were obviously sympathetic to him, and while he served in San Quentin prison, he only served 25 months. He got out in 1930, and surprisingly, he was easily able to resume his film career, and he married Mackaye, who had waited for him. He moved to Broadway after World War II, and won a Tony Award for "
Command Decision
", and originated the role of the alcoholic actor in "
The Country Girl
", but the film versions of both of these went to other actors, because Kelly was not a big enough draw. He never became a major star, but he remained active throughout his long career. Kelly passed away in 1956 at the age of 57.
More Info on Henry O'Neill
:
Henry O'Neill was an actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Jezebel
, No Man of Her Own, The Life of Emile Zola, and
North by Northwest
. He passed away in 1961 at the age of 69.
More Info on Hal B. Wallis
:
Harold Brent Wallis (October 19, 1898 – October 5, 1986) was an American film producer. He is best remembered for producing
Casablanca
(1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and
True Grit
(1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as
Humphrey Bogart
, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and
Errol Flynn
. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Later on, for a long period, he was connected with Paramount Pictures and oversaw films featuring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis,
Elvis Presley
, and John Wayne.
More Info on Jack L. Warner
:
Jack Leonard Warner (August 2, 1892 – September 9, 1978) was a Canadian-American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. Warner's career spanned some 45 years, its duration surpassing that of any other of the seminal Hollywood studio moguls.
As co-head of production at Warner Bros. Studios, he worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the film industry's first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927). After Sam's death, Jack clashed with his surviving older brothers, Harry and Albert Warner. He assumed exclusive control of the film production company in the 1950s, when he secretly purchased his brothers' shares in the business after convincing them to participate in a joint sale of stocks.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is EX/MT-NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear).
Please see the scans for actual condition.
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