Nick Carter, Master Detective, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Walter Pidgeon,

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Nick Carter, Master Detective, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Walter Pidgeon,
Nick Carter, Master Detective, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Walter Pidgeon,
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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, mystery feature, "Nick Carter, Master Detective".
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:
Famed New York detective Nick Carter arrives incognito at a California airplane factory at the behest of owner Hiram Streeter. Despite seemingly thorough precautions, a gang of saboteurs and shadowy foreign agents are able to smuggle out the secret blueprints for innovative new planes and sabotage prototypes during testing. With the aid of eccentric detective Bartholomew and spunky nurse and female pilot Lou Farnsby, Carter is able to expose the fifth columnists as well as the traitors that are helping them.
Trivia
:
Nick Carter, Master Detective, the 1939 Jacques Tourneur aviation airplane crime mystery thriller ("His first thrilling screen appearance!"; based on the popular series of pulp magazines in the 1930s).
The "high speed" aircraft in Nick Carter, Master Detective was a Ryan ST c/n NC17344. Most of the aerial footage was staged in the studio backlots and incorporated into background scenes.
With this speech, Nick Carter derides three of his contemporary movie detectives: Nick Charles, Charlie Chan, and Sherlock Holmes: "Look, I'm not a storybook detective with, uh, a highball glass in one hand (Nick Charles) and, uh, a Chinese proverb (Charlie Chan) in another, nor can I tell you from the ashes of a man's cigar (Sherlock Holmes) that he, uh, had kippered herring for breakfast and hit his grandmother over the head with an ax.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the screen rights to all the 1,100 Nick Carter stories published from the 19th Century through the 1930s. However, all 3 of the films made in the Nick Carter series were based on original stories.
This film received its initial television broadcast in Philadelphia Thursday 28 November 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), followed by San Francisco 12 November 1958 on KGO (Channel 7); it was eventually aired in New York City 22 June 1960 on WCBS (Channel 2), and in Los Angeles 26 June 1960 on KTTV (Channel 11).
According to MGM records, Nick Carter, Master Detective earned 6,000 in the US and Canada and 0,000 elsewhere, making a loss to the studio of ,000.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1939
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Spy, Mystery
Director(s):
Jacques Tourneur
Producer(s):
Lucien Hubbard
Cast
:
Walter Pidgeon as Nick Carter / "Robert Chalmers"
Rita Johnson as Lou Farnsby
Henry Hull as John A. Keller
Stanley Ridges as Dr. Frankton
Donald Meek as Bartholomew
Addison Richards as Hiram Streeter
Henry Victor as J. Lester Hammil
Milburn Stone as Dave Krebe
Martin Kosleck as Otto King
Frank Faylen as Pete
Sterling Holloway as Bee-Catcher
Wally Maher as Cliff Parsons
Edgar Dearing as Denny
William Newell as Cabbie
Eddy Chandler as Workman
Harry Tyler as Locker Guard
More Info on Walter Pidgeon:
Walter Pidgeon was an actor from the late 1920s silents and early talkies, moving on to great character roles in 1950s movies such as
Forbidden Planet
through the 1970s with television roles. He was born in 1897, and started making silent movies and appearing on the stage in the mid 1920s, but he had limited success. He had a wonderful speaking voice, but that did not lead to stardom in early sound movies. Finally, in 1937, at the age of 40, MGM put him under contract, but still limited him to supporting roles. His "big break" finally came in 1941 with
How Green Was My Valley
, and he became one of MGM's top stars of the early 1940s (no doubt helped by so many other male stars being away at war). He stayed with MGM for the remainder of his career. Some of his movies include: Forbidden Planet, Madame Curie (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Mrs. Miniver (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Advise and Consent, The Bad and the Beautiful, Man Hunt,
Command Decision
and Funny Girl! He passed away in 1984 at the age of 87.
More Info on Rita Johnson:
Rita Johnson was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include: The Girl Downstairs, The Big Clock,
The Major and the Minor
, and
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
. Sadly, Johnson sustained brain damage in an incident in 1948. While her injuries were attributed to a fallen hair dryer, she had bruises that indicated she had been physically assaulted. She was no longer able to act, and passed away in 1965 at the age of 52.
More Info on Henry Hull
:
Henry Hull was an actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. He was born in 1890 and had been on stage since 1911. He made his first movie in 1916, but mostly appeared on the stage until 1934, when he played Magwitch in Great Expectations, and was memorable in
Werewolf of London
the following year. He spent a lot of time in Hollywood, appearing in a total of 73 movies through 1966, including playing Henry Cameron in "
The Fountainhead
" in 1946. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 86.
More Info on Donald Meek
:
Donald Meek was a Scottish-born actor from the 1920s to the 1940s. He had more than 800 roles during his illustrious career and he is famous for his role as Dr. Amos Crabtree in the "S.S. Van Dine Mystery Series". Some of his other movies include: The Hole in the Wall,
Romance in Manhattan
, The Informer, Pennies from Heaven,
Stagecoach
, and Babes on Broadway. He passed away in 1946 at the age of 68.
More Info on Addison Richards
:
Addison Richards was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
The Ten Commandments
, The Master Key, The Raiders, and
'G' Men
. He passed away in 1964 at the age of 61.
More Info on Sterling Holloway
:
Sterling Holloway was an actor from the 1920s to the 1990s. After a long successful movie career playing character parts (thanks to his distinctive appearance and very distinctive voice), he then had an even more successful career providing voices for cartoon characters. He is likely best known as the voice of the Winnie the Pooh and some of the other movies he provided cartoon voices for include: The Aristocats,
The Jungle Book
, Bambi, and
Alice in Wonderland
. He passed away in 1992 at the age of 87.
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.
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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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
I will combine lots to save on the shipping costs and I use USPS 1st class shipping (it gives both of us tracking of the package).
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