The Foxes of Harrow, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara

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The Foxes of Harrow, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara
The Foxes of Harrow, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara
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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 1947, drama feature, "The Foxes of Harrow".
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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Alleghany Uprising
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Destry Rides Again
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The Great Lie
,
Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
1942, R49 -
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, Gary Cooper, Babe Ruth
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Fort Apache
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Little Women
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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:
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
Trivia
:
The movie was based on Frank Yerby's bestseller, his first book. It was not widely known at the time that Yerby was African-American. His many books about "the old South" painted a more accurate picture than that of "Gone with the Wind". Nevertheless, Twentieth Century Fox was hoping for its own GWTW success and paid Yerby one hundred fifty thousand dollars for the rights, an astronomical figure. Yerby went on to write thirty-three books of historical fiction.
Fox paid author Frank Yerby 0,000 for the motion picture rights to The Foxes of Harrow, which was his first novel. A December 1947 Ebony article called the figure "the biggest bonanza ever pocketed by a colored writer" and stated that the book was "the first Negro-authored novel ever bought by a Hollywood studio."
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a sixty minute radio adaptation of this movie on December 6, 1948, with Maureen O'Hara reprising her movie role.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a thirty minute radio adaptation of this movie on February 23, 1948, with Sir Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, and Gene Lockhart reprising their movie roles.
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Date:
1947
Genre:
Drama,
Action, Romance
Director(s):
John M. Stahl
Producer(s):
William A. Bacher, Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
:
Rex Harrison as Stephen Fox
Maureen O'Hara as Odalie 'Lilli' D'Arceneaux
Richard Haydn as Andre LeBlanc
Victor McLaglen as Captain Mike Farrell
Vanessa Brown as Aurore D'Arceneaux
Patricia Medina as Desiree
Gene Lockhart as Viscount Henri D'Arceneaux
Charles Irwin as Sean Fox
Hugo Haas as Otto Ludenbach
Dennis Hoey as Master of Harrow
Roy Roberts as Tom Warren
Randy Stuart as Stephen's birth mother (uncredited; her first acting role)
Ralph Faulkner as Fencing Instructor (uncredited)
Kenneth Washington as Achille (uncredited)
Eugene Borden as French Auctioneer (uncredited)
More Info on Rex Harrison:
Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Lancashire, England in 1908. He decided to become "Rex" while still a boy, because it is the Latin word for "king"! He started acting on the London stage at 16. He had some success, but his breakthrough role came twelve years later in French Without Tears, a comic farce which was the first play by Terence Rattigan. After that, he continued to appear in plays, but he also appeared in major English films, including Major Barbara and Blithe Spirit. He came to the U.S. after Blithe Spirit, and made three movies, and then made
Anna and the King of Siam
(the non-musical precursor of The King and I), and quickly followed it with four more movies the following two years. But tragedy struck in 1947, because of Harrison's very active love life! He had divorced his first wife in 1942 and married German actress Lilli Palmer. In 1947, still married to Palmer, he had an affair with Carole Landis, and she committed suicide, and he discovered the body. He attended the funeral with Palmer in an attempt to smooth things over, but the scandal was too great, and Harrison's contract was dissolved and he left Hollywood. For most of the next decade he stayed on the stage, in both London and New York. In 1956, he was Henry Higgins in the first production of
My Fair Lady
, and it was one of the most successful shows of all time. Harrison played the role in the 1964 film version, and won the Best Actor Oscar. The year before he had played Julius Caesar in
Cleopatra
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film). He appeared in a number of big budget movies over the next few years, including The Agony and the Ecstasy and
Doctor Dolittle
. He mostly retired from movies in the late 1970s, but continued to act on stage the rest of his life. He was married a total of six times and he was nicknamed "
Sexy Rexy
"! He passed away in 1990 at the age of 82.
More Info on Maureen O'Hara
:
Maureen O'Hara was an Irish actress from the 1930s to the 2000s. Her first major success was in 1939's
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
, and she was a major star of the 1940s (known for her long association with John Ford and John Wayne), and she aged wonderfully, being able to play the virginal sister in
The Quiet Man
in 1952! She continued acting into the 1960s, and retired in 1971, but she was lured out of retirement for a wonderful performance in Only the Lonely in 1991, but she then returned to her retirement. Some of her other movies include: How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande,
Miracle on 34th Street,
Parent Trap, and Jamaica Inn. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 95.
More Info on Richard Haydn
:
Richard Haydn was an English actor from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include:
The Sound of Music
, Young Frankenstein, and
Alice in Wonderland
. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 80.
More Info on Vanessa Brown
:
Vanessa Brown was an Austrian actress from the 1940s to the 1990s. She was born in Austria as "Smylla Brind", and she appeared on stage and in movies in the 1940s as "Vanessa Brind". She started as a teenager in "Youth Runs Wild" at the age of 16, and a few years later, she graduated to "grown up" roles. She was in
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
(1947), The Heiress (1949) and other films She was intended to be in a series of Tarzan movies after playing Jane in "
Tarzan and the Slave Girl
" in 1952, but she left the series after making it, likely because she got married to a Hollywood plastic surgeon. After she married, she became a panelist on TV quiz shows, but she did some more stage and film work. She later appeared on such television series as The Wonder Years and Murder, She Wrote. She also had a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Donna Kress in the 1959 episode, "The Case of Paul Drake's Dilemma". In 1956, she became very active in politics, serving as a delegate to the
Democratic Convention
! Brown passed away in 1999 at the age of 71.
More Info on Gene Lockhart
:
Gene Lockhart was a Canadian actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Algiers
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Miracle on 34th Street
, and Carousel. He passed away in 1957 at the age of 65.
More Info on Victor McLaglen
:
Victor McLaglen was an English actor (of Irish descent) from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was a giant man who was a boxer who turned to acting. Some of his movies include:
The Quiet Man
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
The Informer
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and countless
John Ford
movies, including many with John Wayne! Note that although McLaglen was the quintessential Irish actor in movies of the 1920s on, he was in fact NOT Irish, and was born in England! He passed away in 1959 at the age of 72.
More Info on Patricia Medina
:
Patricia Medina was an English actress from the 1930s to the 1970s, mostly in westerns and adventure movies. Some of her movies include: The Three Musketeers,
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
, Francis, and Fortunes of Captain Blood. She passed away in 2012 at the age of 92.
More Info on Gene Lockhart
:
Gene Lockhart was a Canadian actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include:
Algiers
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Miracle on 34th Street
, and Carousel. He passed away in 1957 at the age of 65.
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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