My Own True Love, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas

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My Own True Love, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas
My Own True Love, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas
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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, drama feature, "My Own True love".
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,
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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 Englishman's (Melvyn Douglas) fiancee (Phyllis Calvert) comforts his son (Philip Friend) who has lost a leg and a family in World War II.
My Own True Love, the 1949 Compton Bennett romantic love triangle family relationship melodrama ("Only one could have her love... This girl who stood between father and son!"; "Father and son... ready to kill for the woman they both loved!"; "Based on a novel by Yolanda Foldes"; "Produced by Val Lewton"; about a former female prisoner of war from World War II who is about to marry a much older man, but then she meets his adult son whose wife and child were killed during the war, and she falls in love with him, but he refuses to betray his own father, and he plans to commit suicide) starring Phyllis Calvert, Melvyn Douglas, Wanda Hendrix, Philip Friend, and Binnie Barnes.
Trivia
:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
Studio:
Paramount Picture
Date:
1949
Genre:
Drama, Romance
Director(s):
Compton Bennett
Producer(s):
Val Lewton
Cast
:
Phyllis Calvert as Joan Clews
Melvyn Douglas as Clive Heath
Wanda Hendrix as Sheila Heath
Philip Friend as Michael Heath
Binnie Barnes as Geraldine
Alan Napier as Kittredge
Arthur Shields as Iverson
Phyllis Morris as Mrs. Peach
Richard Webb as Corporal
More Info on Phyllis Calvert:
Joan Blondell was a popular Warner Bros. actress from the 1930s to the 1980s, often in movies with James Cagney. She was born "Rose Joan Blondell" in 1906, and under the name "Rosebud Blondell" she won the 1926 Miss Dallas pageant and placed fourth for Miss America in Atlantic City that same year. Placed under contract by Warners in 1930, she moved to Hollywood where studio boss Jack Warner wanted her to change her name to "Inez Holmes", but Blondell refused. She appeared in lots of Warner Bros movies of the 1930s, and she helped define what "pre-Code" means! She also was one of the very few sexy actresses who not only did not die young, but she also successfully transitioned to character roles, and she had significant character roles in all the decades from the 1940s through the late 1970s! Some of her movies include: Nightmare Alley, The Public Enemy, Footlight Parade, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Blue Veil (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Blonde Crazy. She passed away in 1979 at the age of 73.
More Info on Melvyn Douglas
:
Melvyn Douglas was born Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg in Macon, Georgia in 1901. His father was a Russian Jewish concert pianist who taught piano at colleges and his mother was of Scottish heritage. Melvyn knew he wanted to be an actor, and he dropped out of high school and joined touring stock companies. In 1928, he made a Broadway debut in A Free Soul playing the same part Clark Gable would play in the 1931 movie version. In 1930, he starred in Tonight or Never, and not only was the play a big success, but he acted with Helen Gahagan, and they married the next year (he had been previously married from 1925 to 1930). His wife continued on the stage, but made only one movie, She, in 1935. He made the movie version of Tonight or Never in 1931, and stayed in Hollywood. He had the rare ability to play leads in both dramas and comedy (and early in his career he made several low budget horror movies!). He took both leading and supporting roles. Perhaps his best remembered movie from this period was opposite Greta Garbo in Ninotchka. He joined the Army during World War II, and his wife, now known as Helen Gahagan Douglas, was elected to Congress for the first of three terms. After the war, Douglas started taking older supporting roles in movies such as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But he was caught up in the HUAAC hearings, and while he wasn't blacklisted, he was "gray listed" meaning that the Hollywood studios would not hire him. In 1950, his wife ran for the U.S. Senate against young Richard Nixon, and Nixon accused her of being "soft" on Communism (he said she was "pink right down to her underwear") and she lost. Like so many others caught up in the Red hysteria, Douglas spent most of the 1950s on television, and on the stage. He won a Tony Award for his performance in The Best Man in 1960, and he won an Emmy for his 1967 TV role role in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Douglas made a strong return to movies in 1962 in Billy Budd, and the following year he was magnificent in Hud (opposite equally magnificent Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, and Brandon De Wilde). Douglas and Neal won Oscars, and Newman only lost because Sidney Poitier won his groundbreaking Oscar for Lillies of the Field. If you have never seen this wonderful movie, I urge you to see it ASAP! Douglas continued giving strong performances as he grew older, and perhaps his finest of his career was in I Never Sang For My Father (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1970, opposite Gene Hackman and Estelle Parsons. In 1979, he won a second Oscar for Being There. In 1980, his wife of nearly 50 years passed away, and Douglas passed away the following year. There have been few actors who have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy, as Douglas did. There have been few who were equally comfortable in comedy and drama, and who were willing to alternate between lead roles and supporting ones, and few who were able to pass seamlessly from young actor to middle aged actor to old actor, and yet Melvyn Douglas is the only one I can think of who did all these rare feats, and did them superbly!
More Info on Wanda Hendrix
:
Wanda Hendrix was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: Ride the Pink Horse, Prince of Foxes, The Black Dakotas, and Confidential Agent. She passed away in 1981 at the age of 52.
More Info on Binnie Barnes
:
Binnie Barnes (born Gittel Enoyce Barnes) was an English actress from the 1920s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: Holiday, The Time of Their Lives, The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Trouble with Angels, and Three Smart Girls. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 95.
More Info on Alan Napier
:
Alan William Napier-Clavering (7 January 1903 – 8 August 1988), better known as Alan Napier, was an English actor. After a decade in West End theatre, he had a long film career in Britain and later, in Hollywood. Napier is best remembered for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. 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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