My Friend Irma, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson

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My Friend Irma, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson
My Friend Irma, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Marie Wilson
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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 1949, musical comedy feature, "My Friend Irma".
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:
Based on the long-running radio show. Irma is a likeable airhead who meddles in her roommate's love-life. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, in their first screen appearance, are juice-bar operators who are discovered when a self-proclaimed manager hears Martin's golden voice. Irma's roommate wants to marry her rich boss, but instead falls in love with Martin.
Trivia
:
Based on the popular radio program, Marie Wilson (Irma), Hans Conried (Prof. Kropotkin), and Gloria Gordon (Mrs. O'Reilly) reprise their radio roles. Conried replaced Felix Bressart, who was cast in the film but died during production.
Jerry Lewis was originally cast to play Al. But it was decided to let Lewis act similar to his onstage comic persona and the character of Seymour was created for him.
My Friend Irma was filmed from February 22 through April 12, 1949. Although filming was already underway, producer Hal B. Wallis thought it would be a low-risk introduction of the team of Martin & Lewis to the screen. They had been approached by several film studios before signing a five-year contract with Paramount Pictures.
Marie Wilson, Hans Conried, and Gloria Gordon played the same characters in the movie that they did on the radio show. Felix Bressart was originally cast in the film as Professor Kropotkin, but he died suddenly during filming. His completed scenes were reshot with Hans Conried, who took over the role.
It was followed the following year by a sequel, My Friend Irma Goes West directed by Hal Walker, the only sequel that Martin & Lewis ever made.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Date:
1949
Genre:
Comedy, Musical, Romance
Director(s):
George Marshall
Producer(s):
Hall B. Wallis
Cast
:
John Lund as Al
Marie Wilson as Irma Peterson
Diana Lynn as Jane Stacy
Don DeFore as Richard Rhinelander III
Dean Martin as Steve Laird
Jerry Lewis as Seymour
Hans Conried as Professor Kropotkin
Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Rhinelander
Percy Helton as Mr. Z. Clyde
Gloria Gordon as Mrs. O'Reilly, the Landlady
More Info on John Lund
:
John Lund was an actor from the 1940s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
High Society
, A Foreign Affair, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, To Each His Own,
The Mating Season
, and The Perils of Pauline. He passed away in 1992 at the age of 81.
More Info on Diana Lynn:
Diana Lynn (born Dolores Loehr, billed as "Dolly Loehr" early in her career) was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Major and the Minor, and Every Girl Should Be Married. She retired in 1970 and moved to New York with her husband and four children. She was enticed out of retirement to take a part in Play It As It Lays, but before filming could start, she sadly passed away from a stroke at the age of 45 in 1971.
More Info on Don Defore
:
Don DeFore was an actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He appeared in many television shows including The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet and
Hazel
(as Mr. B). Some of his movies include: The Male Animal, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
, and Romance on the High Seas. There is a cool piece of trivia about Mr. DeFore. He was the only individual allowed to open a restaurant at Disneyland. He operated the Silver Banjo in Frontierland from 1957 to 1961. His brother Verne DeFore helped him, and they used a gift that their father, a railroad engineer, had brought home from Louisiana, a beautiful silver banjo, as the tiny restaurant's inspiration. DeFore passed away in 1993 at the age of 80.
More Info on Marie Wilson
:
Marie Wilson was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. She is best remembered for her starring roles in the "My Friend Irma" movies in 1949 and 1950 (which introduced Martin & Lewis), and she recreated that role in a TV series. But she had started in movies in 1934, mostly playing sexy chorus girls! Some of her other movies include:
Babes in Toyland
, For Auld Lang Syne, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, Satan Met a Lady, and Boy Meets Girl. Wilson passed away in 1972 at the age of 56.
More Info on Dean Martin
:
Dean Martin was an actor and singer from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was a member of the
Rat Pack
with Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Peter Lawford. He was partnered with Jerry Lewis in live performances and in a series of memorable movies until they had a very publicized break-up, after which each had long solo careers. Some of his movies include:
Rio Bravo
, The Silencers, The Young Lions, and Some Came Running. Martin passed away in 1995 at the age of 78.
More Info on Jerry Lewis
:
Jerry Lewis was born Joseph Levitch in Newark New Jersey in 1926. He began performing at an early age. His father was an entertainer and M.C. who performed as Danny Lewis, and his son used the stage name Joey Lewis at first, but changed it to Jerry to avoid confusion with either Joe E. Lewis or boxer Joe Louis. In the late 1940s, he met singer Dean Martin, and Dean served as his "straight man", and they performed in night clubs and TV, and in a string of incredibly successful movies. But as Jerry became more and more the focus of the act Dean became increasingly dissatisfied, and the two broke up in 1956. Jerry continued making movies (writing, directing, and starring in most of them), and many feel many of his solo movies were superior to the ones he made with Dean. Perhaps his best was
The Nutty Professor
in 1963, where he played a mild mannered professor who turns into Buddy Love, in a wacky parody of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1965, Jerry injured his back while performing and became addicted to Percodan, and he battled this addiction for at least a decade. From 1966 to 2010, Jerry hosted the annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon on TV, which raises millions of dollars every year. In 1976, Dean appeared on the Telethon, and even though they had made some minor appearances together in the past decade, this was widely touted as the first reconciliation of the legendary comedy team. In 1981, Jerry attempted a comeback with Hardly Working, and although the movie made some money, his style of humor had fallen out of favor, and it was the last slapstick comedy movie Jerry made. He switched to dramatic roles, and in 1983 he took the Johnny Carson-like role in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and was great. He also was memorable as Eli Sternberg in an arc of the cult favorite TV show, Wiseguy. There is one movie Jerry Lewis made that was never released, called "
The Day the Clown Cried
" in 1972. It was completed but then multiple lawsuits kept it from being released. There are constant rumors that one day it WILL be released! Sadly, Jerry passed away in 2017, and the fate of "The Day the Clown Cried" is unknown. There are reports he donated a copy of the film to the Library of Congress in 2015, under the stipulation that it wouldn't be screened before June 2024.
More Info on George Marshall
:
George Marshall was a director, writer and actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Pack Up Your Troubles, The Goldwyn Follies, and
How the West Was Won
. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 83.
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.
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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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