The Great Lie, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor

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The Great Lie, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
The Great Lie, 1941, Movie Glass Slide, Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor
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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 1941, drama feature, "The Great Lie".
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 Bride Came C.O.D.
, James Cagney, Bette Davis, William Frawley
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:
Sandra (Mary Astor) and Pete (George Brent) elope but their marriage is invalid since she's not yet divorced. Sandra is, however, pregnant by Pete. Pete marries his former fiancée Maggie (Bette Davis), then flies to South America where his plane crashes. Maggie pays Sandra to let her adopt Pete's baby. Pete returns "from the dead". Sandra and Maggie contend for Pete and the baby.
Trivia
:
Bette Davis and Mary Astor thought the original script was not very good. They ended up doing massive rewrites on the script themselves.
George Brent was a licensed pilot and did his own landings in the movie.
At Mary Astor's suggestion, her hair was cut into the chignon shape she wears in the film because rolling and styling it took too long. She then wore it the same but a bit longer in The Maltese Falcon (1941), causing a fashion craze.
One of Mary Astor's lines is, "Who brought me to this dump?" Eight years later Bette Davis said "What a dump!", one of her best-known quotes, in Beyond the Forest (1949). Both original scripts were written by Lenore J. Coffee.
Mary Astor won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for this film despite the fact she gave the only nominated performance in the category that was not in a Best Picture nominee.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 2, 1942 with George Brent and Mary Astor reprising their film roles.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1941
Genre:
Drama
Director(s):
Edmund Goulding
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis
Cast
:
Bette Davis as Maggie Patterson
George Brent as Peter Van Allen
Mary Astor as Sandra Kovak
Lucile Watson as Aunt Ada Greenfield
Hattie McDaniel as Violet
Grant Mitchell as Joshua Mason
Jerome Cowan as Jock Thompson
Charles Trowbridge as Sen. Ted Greenfield
Thurston Hall as Oscar Worthington James
Russell Hicks as Colonel Harriston
J. Farrell MacDonald as Dr. Ferguson
Sam McDaniel as Jefferson
More Info on Bette Davis
:
Bette Davis was a legendary actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was Warner Bros. leading female star throughout the late 1930s, and she continued as a major star throughout the 1940s, and she had one of her greatest triumphs,
All About Eve
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), in 1950. She refused to retire, and took out a famous ad in Variety seeking work (citing her two Oscars!), and she starred in
What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte in the 1960s. Some of her other movies include: Dangerous (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Jezebel
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Now, Voyager (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Of Human Bondage, Star (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Mr. Skeffington (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Little Foxes
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Letter (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Dark Victory
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and too many others to list! She passed away in 1989 at the age of 81.
More Info on George Brent:
George Brent was a Warner Bros. leading actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was frequently chosen as a leading man by Bette Davis and other top actresses. Some of his movies include: The Old Maid,
42nd Street
, The Great Lie and
Dark Victory
. He was married six times, and among his wives were Ann Sheridan and Ruth Chatterton. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 75.
More Info on Mary Astor:
Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois in 1906, and was far from an overnight success. Two years later, she had a major success appearing in "Beau Brummel" opposite
John Barrymore
in 1924 (at Barrymore's request), and the 18 year old Mary had an affair with the 42 year old Barrymore. Her parents broke off the affair with Barrymore and virtually kept her a prisoner in the lavish home they bought with her ,500 a week earnings (she received only a weekly allowance!). She had some success in her movies over the following years, but the advent of sound looked like it might be a career ender for her (and it was for so many actors at that time), because she failed a "sound test" and was released from her contract! But she took voice and singing lessons, and after appearing in a successful stage play, she was re-hired. She had married a director in 1929, but he was killed in a plane crash in 1930, which gave her a nervous breakdown. She was treated by a doctor, whom she married the following year! In 1932 she got a lead role (opposite Clark Gable and Jean Harlow) in
Red Dust
. She had a major success in
The Kennel Murder Case
, opposite William Powell. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman, and other celebrities. In 1935, her doctor husband divorced her, and due to her behavior, asked for custody of their young daughter. He had stolen her diary which documented her affair with Kaufman. While the custody hearing was going on she was filming Dodsworth (as Edith Cortright), and rather than hurt her career, the scandal seemed to help it! In 1937 she moved back to New York, where she acted on the stage and appeared on radio. In 1941, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Great Lie" (Bette Davis helped her get the part, and they remained good friends for life), and had her most memorable role that same year in "
The Maltese Falcon
" as Brigid O'Shaughnessy. She signed a contract with MGM, which gave her some needed financial security, but which sadly did not give her many movies worthy of her great talent. She continued acting until 1964 (one of her best later roles was in Return to Peyton Place in 1961), making a total of 123 movies, and she lived for another 21 years (16 of those at the Motion Picture Country Home) until she passed away in 1987 at the age of 81. Mary Astor was a charming. beautiful and very talented actress who never was in the first rank of leading ladies, likely mostly because of her turbulent private life, but she did leave behind many memorable performances, although most of the best of them were as a secondary performer, and not as the lead.
More Info on Lucille Watson
:
Lucile Watson was a Canadian-born actress from the 1910s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include: The Garden of Allah, The Young in Heart, Sweethearts, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Tomorrow Is Forever, Song of the South, and
Little Women
. She passed away in 1962 at the age of 83.
More Info on Hattie McDaniel
:
Hattie McDaniel was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s. She was one of the first black African American performers to achieve success in mainstream Hollywood movies. She is best remembered for her role as "Mammy" in "
Gone with the Wind
", and she appeared in 95 movies between 1932 and 1949, and she had her own TV show, "
Beulah
", in the 1950s. She was even the inspiration for the "Mammy Two Shoes" character in the
Tom & Jerry
cartoons! But because she almost exclusively played stereotyped roles throughout her career, her work is little seen today (except of course for "Gone with the Wind"). That is especially unfortunate, because she had an even more significant career than most people realize. She is believed to be the first black woman to sing on the radio (in 1915), and she was a major vaudeville and cabaret singing star in the 1910s and 1920s! Perhaps a movie can be made about her remarkable career. McDaniel passed away in 1952 at the age of 59.
More Info on George Tobias
:
George Tobias was a character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s, mostly in Warner Bros. movies. Some of his roles include:
Yankee Doodle Dandy
, Sergeant York, and TV's "
Bewitched
" (as Abner Kravitz). He passed away in 1980 at the age of 78.
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:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder EX-NM
. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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