The Little Princess, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Shirley Temple, Arthur Treacher

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The Little Princess, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Shirley Temple, Arthur Treacher
The Little Princess, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Shirley Temple, Arthur Treacher
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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, family comedy feature, "The Little Princess".
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:
When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as missing in action however, her life goes from one of plenty to that of a poor house maid. Mrs. Minchin agrees to keep her on at the school, but in the absence of her tuition payments, she has to work for her keep. She is soon cleaning out the fireplace and scrubbing floors and is dubbed the little princess by her former schoolmates. She also refuses to accept that her father is dead and prowls the hospitals in the hope of locating him. Luck - and Royal intervention - assist her in her quest.
Trivia
:
In the scene where a parrot flies into Sara's room off of Ram Dass' (Cesar Romero) shoulder, originally a small monkey was to be used. However, the monkey did not seem to like Shirley Temple and kept trying to bite her, so it was replaced by a parrot.
Marcia Mae Jones, who played Lavinia, received hate mail from Shirley Temple fans over the way Lavinia treated Temple's Sara Crewe, in contrast to the way Temple's Heidi treated Jones' Klara in Heidi (1937).
Mary Nash's costumes from Heidi (1937) were recycled for this film.
Great lengths were taken to make sure everything on film was period-correct for England in 1899. Production was halted when it was discovered that of the costumes Shirley Temple wore had fasteners which were not invented until 1908.
Shirley Temple initially brought her own pony to use in this film. However, the pony became restless and disruptive and was replaced - causing Temple to lose the animal's fee for appearing in the picture.
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Date:
1939
Genre:
Comedy, Musical, Drama
Director(s):
Walter Lang
Producer(s):
Darryl F. Zanuck, Gene Markey
Cast
:
Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe
Richard Greene as Geoffrey Hamilton
Anita Louise as Rose
Ian Hunter as Captain Reginald Crewe
Cesar Romero as Ram Dass
Arthur Treacher as Hubert "Bertie" Minchin
Mary Nash as Mistress Amanda Minchin
Sybil Jason as Becky
Miles Mander as Lord Wickham
Marcia Mae Jones as Lavinia
Deidre Gale as Jessie
Ira Stevens as Ermengarde
E. E. Clive as Mr. Barrows
Beryl Mercer as Queen Victoria
Eily Malyon as Cook
Clyde Cook as Attendant
Keith Kenneth as Bobbie
Will Stanton as a Groom
Harry Allen as a Groom
Holmes Herbert as a Doctor
Evan Thomas as a Doctor
Guy Bellis as a Doctor
Kenneth Hunter as General
Lionel Braham as Colonel
More Info on Shirley Temple
:
Shirley Temple was born in Santa Monica, California in 1928. Her mother quickly saw her remarkable talent, and did all she could to develop it, and to get her noticed. She enrolled her in a dance school, where she amazed everyone with her dancing and singing abilities at such a young age. Her mother gave her a hair style imitative of that worn by
Mary Pickford
, with exactly 56 "ringlets". She appeared in her first movies starting when she was just shy of four years old, in a series called "
Baby Burlesks
" (she had apparently failed an audition for the
Our Gang
series). She was paid a day. In 1934, she signed a contract with Fox, and her career really took off.
Her big breakthrough came with Stand Up and Cheer!, where her singing and dancing amazed the nation. But she proved she was a remarkably poised actress that same year in Little Miss Marker and Baby Take a Bow, and Fox rushed her into as many movies as they could. That same year she was in Now and Forever with Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard (reportedly Cooper asked for her autograph when he met her!), and soon after she starred in the series of juvenile musicals she is best remembered for, films like
Bright Eyes
, The Little Colonel, Curly Top,
Poor
Little Rich Girl
, Wee Willie Winkie,
Heidi
, and many more. In the late 1930s, Fox (now 20th Century Fox) still had her in little girl roles, even though she was rapidly maturing, and in 1939 MGM badly wanted her for the lead in
The Wizard of Oz
, but 20th Century Fox refused to loan her out, and instead put her in The Blue Bird, which did not do well.
She left Fox, and began playing "teen" roles for various studios, but none were very successful, and she made far fewer movies. In 1945, she married actor
John Agar
, and they were married for four years and had a child. In 1949, they divorced, and a year later she married businessman Charles Black, and retired from movies forever. She became active in politics (she was a Republican, and was appointed to several posts in the 1960s to 1990s). Shirley Temple was far and away the greatest child star of all time! She saved the Fox studio after the death of its previous greatest star,
Will Rogers
in 1935. She was merchandised in a zillion ways, and countless girls born in the late 1930s were named "Shirley". There has never been another child actor with so much talent at such a young age! She passed away in 2014 at the age of 85.
More Info on Richard Greene:
Richard Greene was an English actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
, The Little Princess, Stanley and Livingstone,
Tales From the Crypt
, and Kentucky. He passed away in 1985 at the age of 66.
More Info on Anita Louise:
Anita Louise was an actress from the 1920s to the 1970s. She came to prominence in the mid 1930s at Warner Bros., but she had actually been in movies since 1922, when she was a 7 year-old child actress, and she successfully made the transition to a teen actress, and then an adult leading lady (one of the very few child stars to ever do this, joining
Natalie Wood
, and a very select few others)! She was also a
WAMPAS
Baby Star in 1931. Some of her movies include:
The Story of Louis Pasteur
, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Dream Comes True, Tovarich, The Little Princess, and Marie Antoinette. She passed away in 1970 at the age of 50 after a stroke.
More Info on Ian Hunter:
Ian Hunter was a South African actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: The Adventures of Robin Hood,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
, and The Little Princess. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 75.
More Info on Cesar Romero
:
Cesar Romero was an actor (born in New York City) from the 1930s to the 1990s. He was never a top star, but he worked in movies and TV for many decades, and he always gave a good performance. He is probably best remembered for playing The Joker in the 1960s "
Batman
" television series. Some of his movies include:
The Thin Man
, The Good Fairy, Tales of Manhattan,
Vera Cruz
, and The Devil Is a Woman. Romero passed away in 1994 at the age of 86.
More Info on Arthur Treacher
:
Arthur Treacher was an English actor from the 1920s to the 1960s and was the quintessential English butler, a role he played in many Hollywood movies over several decades. Some of his movies include:
Mary Poppins
, National Velvet, The Little Princess, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Heidi
, and In Society. He was a frequent guest on The Merv Griffin Show in the 1960s, and his reputation was such that he was able to open a chain of restaurants called "
Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips
", which had over 500 locations (but was sold to Mrs. Paul's Seafood in the 1970s). He passed away in 1975 at the age of 81.
More Info on Mary Nash
:
Mary Nash (August 15, 1884 – December 3, 1976) was an American actress.
She moved to Hollywood in 1934, where she was in films until 1946. According to Allmovie: "Nash was often cast as seemingly mild-mannered women who turned vicious when challenged, as witness her work in College Scandal (1936) and
Charlie Chan in Panama
(1940)...Mary Nash's most sympathetic role was as the long-suffering wife of blustering capitalist J.B. Ball in Easy Living (1937)."[5] In the 1940 film Gold Rush Maisie, she played the patient, forbearing wife and mother of a family, forced by the Dust Bowl and Depression to abandon their farm in Arkansas, that has spent five years traveling through the country in search of seasonal work.
Nash may be best known for playing villains in two notable Shirley Temple films, first as Fraulein Rottenmeier in
Heidi
(1937) and then as Miss Minchin in
The Little Princess
(1939). She played Katharine Hepburn's socialite mother in the movie version of
The Philadelphia Story
(1940). She played a supporting role in the 1936 Academy Award-winning film Come and Get It and had a featured role in the 1944 film In the Meantime, Darling.
More Info on Sybil Jason
:
Sybil Jason was born in South Africa, but was a singing and dancing child prodigy in England from the age of 2. When she was 6, Jack Warner saw her perform, and signed her to a contract hoping she could be a child star for Warner Bros. to equal Shirley Temple at 20th Century-Fox. However, after a few movies, including starring opposite Al Jolson in "
The Singing Kid
", she did not deliver the hoped for results, and Warner Bros. did not renew her contract in 1938. Daryl Zanuck signed her at 20th Century-Fox, putting her with Shirley Temple in "
The Little Princess
". She was supposed to have a major role in "The Blue Bird", opposite Shirley Temple, but most of her scenes were cut from the movie (perhaps because it was feared she would "upstage" Shirley Temple, who was "getting old"!), and she "retired". In 1947, at the age of 18, she married a Navy man, and they had a child and were married for 58 years until he passed away in 2006, and she passed away in 2011 at the age of 83!
More Info on Walter Lang
:
Walter Lang was a director and producer from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of the movies he directed include: The Ladybird,
The Little Princess
, Moon Over Miami, Coney Island, Cheaper by the Dozen,
There's No Business Like Show Business
, The King and I, and The Marriage-Go-Round. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 75.
More Info on Darryl F. Zanuck
:
Darryl F. Zanuck was a screenwriter in the 1920s who became a legendary producer from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include:
All About Eve
, The Grapes of Wrath, How Green Was My Valley,
The Longest Day
, and Night and the City. He had an unusual beginning! He was born in Wahoo, Nebraska, the result of an affair between the owner of a hotel and the night clerk, and by the time he was 13, he had been abandoned by both his parents, and at 16, he lied about his age and joined the Army, serving in Belgium in
World War I
. Afterward, he had a series of odd jobs, but then got a job in the movie business, and the rest, as they say, is history! In case you were wondering, the "F" stands for Francis. Zanuck passed away in 1979 at the age of 77.
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 VG-EX (writing on it), the cardboard holder Good-VG+ (shows some wear, Staples are Rusted)
. 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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