The Roaring Twenties, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bogart "Very Rare"

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The Roaring Twenties, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bogart "Very Rare"
The Roaring Twenties, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, James Cagney, Bogart "Very Rare"
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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, drama feature, "The Roaring Twenties".
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:
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
Trivia
:
This marked the end of James Cagney's cycle of gangster films for Warner Bros. Cagney wanted to diversify his roles: he would not play a gangster again until White Heat (1949), ten years later.
A shot of gangsters bombing a storefront features a montage [01:15:30] that is actually an alternate angle of a shot from the bombing of a store in The Public Enemy (1931). The same shot is also notably used in a similar montage for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).
This film sparked a nostalgia craze. Radio stations began playing 1920s music. Producer Mark Hellinger appeared on Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall radio show, and singer Kate Smith promoted the film on all of her radio programs. Both Life and Look magazines published "Roaring Twenties" layouts. Concerned by this societal craze, film censors became reluctant to approve future cinematic depictions of the 1920s for fear of "glamorizing the wickedness" of the Prohibition era.
Eddie Bartlett refers a couple of times to a "gilpin". This is a slang term for a stupid or gullible person, mostly known from the 1930s rather than 1919 when Eddie first uses it in the film.
"Melancholy Baby", a pre-WWI song, was first introduced in the "tavern circuit" by William Frawley who later played "Fred Mertz" on I Love Lucy (1951). The song later was used in Johnny Eager (1941) and Scarlet Street (1945).
James Cagney's character was also partially based on Moe Snyder, who used his muscle and influence to promote singer Ruth Etting. Cagney would portray the real Snyder in the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me (1955) opposite Doris Day.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Film-Noir
Director(s):
Raoul Walsh
Producer(s):
Hal B. Wallis, Samuel Bischoff
Cast
:
James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett
Priscilla Lane as Jean Sherman
Humphrey Bogart as George Hally
Gladys George as Panama Smith
Jeffrey Lynn as Lloyd Hart
Frank McHugh as Danny Green
George Meeker as Harold Masters
Paul Kelly as Nick Brown
Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Sherman
Edward Keane as Pete Henderson
Joseph Sawyer as Sergeant Pete Jones
Abner Biberman as Lefty
John Hamilton as Judge
Robert Elliott as First Detective
Eddie Chandler as Second Detective
Vera Lewis as Mrs. Gray
John Deering as the Narrator
Uncredited Cast:
Elliott Sullivan as Eddie's Cellmate
Patrick O'Malley as Jailer
Bert Hanlon as Piano accompanist
Joseph Crehan as Mr. Fletcher, the Foreman
Murray Alper as First Mechanic
Dick Wessel as Second Mechanic
George Humbert as Luigi, Restaurant Proprietor
Ben Welden as Tavern Proprietor
Clay Clement as Bramfield, the Broker
Don Thaddeus Kerr as Bobby Hart
Ray Cook as an Orderly
Norman Willis as Bootlegger
Arthur Loft as Proprietor of Still
Al Hill, Raymond Bailey, and Lew Harvey as Ex-Cons
Joe Devlin and Jeffrey Sayre as Order-Takers
Paul Phillips as Mike
Bert Hanlon as Piano Player
Jack Norton as Drunk
Alan Bridge as Captain
Fred Graham as Henchman
James Blaine as Doorman
Henry C. Bradley and Lottie Williams as Couple in Restaurant
John Harron as Soldier
Lee Phelps as Bailiff
Nat Carr as Waiter
Wade Boteler as Policeman
Creighton Hale as Customer
Ann Codee as Saleswoman
Eddie Acuff, Milton Kibbee, and John Ridgely as Cab Drivers
Frank Mayo
Bess Flowers as Nightclub Patron
Frank Wilcox as Cabbie at Grand Central
Oscar O'Shea
Robert Armstrong as Hatted Passerby before Nightclub
James Flavin as Policeman
Emory Parnell as Gangster
More Info on James Cagney:
James Cagney was a legendary actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was a huge success in crime movies in the early 1930s (almost always playing a gangster), and that unfortunately typecast him in those roles, but he continually fought against it, and he made several wonderful non-gangster movies as well. Some of his movies include: The
Public Enemy
, Yankee Doodle Dandy (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
White Heat
, Ragtime,
Angels With Dirty Faces
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Roaring Twenties, One, Two, Three,
Love Me Or Leave Me
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) and scores of others! He retired from show business completely in 1961, but he was coaxed out of retirement to appear in Milos Forman's
Ragtime
in 1981. He passed away in 1986 at the age of 86.
More Info on Priscilla Lane:
Priscilla Lane was an actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. She was one of the Lane Sisters (three sisters who performed together with Gale Page in a series of movies where they played four sisters in
Four Daughters
). She also had a solid solo career in the 1940s. Some of her movies include:
Arsenic and Old Lace
, The Roaring Twenties, and
Saboteur
. Note that most people would naturally assume that there were only three Lane sisters in real life, which was why they had to cast a non-sister in the role of the fourth movie sister. But actually, they DID have a fourth sister, Leota, but she had a screen test, and did so poorly that she was sent home (which surely must have made for strained holiday dinners!). Priscilla passed away in 1995 at the age of 79.
More Info on Humphrey Bogart
:
Humphrey Bogart was born Christmas Day in New York City in 1899. Although he would become perhaps the greatest movie star of all time, his early life in no way predicted this, and he was well into his thirties before he had much success at all! His father, a surgeon, intended for him to become a doctor, but he was kicked out of college. He joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and managed a stage company in his early 20s. He began acting on the stage, but to no real success. In 1930 he got a Hollywood contract at Fox Pictures, but he had little success there, and they released him after two years. He returned to the stage, and in 1936 finally was noticed in the small but vital role in the stage production of
The Petrified Forest
, where he appeared with Leslie Howard. Howard was signed for the movie version of the play, and he insisted, over studio objections, that Bogart be cast as well (he sent a telegram to Warners that read "No Bogart, no Howard"). Bogart never forgot this great kindness, and he much later named his daughter "Leslie". While Bogart was well received in The Petrified Forest, it did not make him a first rank star (likely he was 36 and he had already failed in Hollywood years earlier), so he spent the next five years at Warner Bros appearing in 28 films, almost always in secondary roles, often as a gangster. Twice he played cowboys (in
Virginia City
and
The Oklahoma Kid
)! He played the title role in The Return of Doctor X, a second rate horror movie, and a wrestling promoter in Swing Your Lady. He was in the first two "
Dead End
" movies, but was overshadowed by the Dead End Kids. Bogart was now 40, and it seemed likely he would finish his career playing more and more minor roles. But in 1941 George Raft turned down the role of Roy "
Mad Dog
" Earle, an escaped legendary bank robber, and that role, along with the role of Sam Spade in
The Maltese Falcon
(which Warners was remaking for the second time in 10 years) FINALLY made Bogart a top star (Warners thought so little of him as these movies were being released that most of the movie paper advertising for The Maltese Falcon showed Bogart with his cropped white hair from
High Sierra!
).
Casablanca
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) followed the next year, along with other patriotic World War II movies. In 1944, Bogart, who was 44 and had been married three times, was cast opposite 19 year old newcomer (and Howard Hawks' protege) Lauren Bacall in
To Have and Have Not
, and Bogart left his wife and married Bacall the following year. They would make three more movies together (The Big Sleep, Dark Passage, and Key Largo) and have two children. Bogart had some of his very finest roles near the end of his career. In 1948 he starred as Fred C. Dobbs in
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
, in 1951 he was Charlie Allnut in
The African Queen
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and in 1954 he was Lt. Cmdr. Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; remember how he used "geometric logic" to prove there was a duplicate key?). I can't see anyone not agreeing that these are among the three finest acting performances ever! Bogart died from throat cancer in 1957 at the age of 57. He made many other memorable movies others than the ones noted above, and I urge you to seek them out! But be aware that he also appeared in a goodly number of MUCH lesser movies as well (especially in the first ten years of his career, so be sure to read reviews before starting one of his movies!)
More Info on Gladys George
:
Gladys George was an actress from the 1910s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include:
The Maltese Falcon
, The Best Years of Our Lives,
The Roaring Twenties
, Detective Story, Valiant Is The Word For Carrie (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and Marie Antoinette. She passed away in 1954 at the age of 54.
More Info on Jeffrey Lynn
:
Jeffrey Lynn (born Ragnar Godfrey Lind) was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was a teacher for a number of years and did not begin acting until his early thirties. He never achieved major success, but he played lots of secondary roles, usually the kind of guy who didn't get the girl, or the leading actor's best friend. Some of his movies include:
Four Daughters
, Daughters Courageous, and Four Wives. He passed away in 1995 at the age of 86.
More Info on Frank McHugh
:
Frank McHugh was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was close friends with James Cagney and they appeared in eleven movies together. Some of his movies include:
The Dawn Patrol
, One Way Passage, Footlight Parade, Dodge City, and
Mighty Joe Young
. He passed away in 1981 at the age of 83.
More Info on Paul Kelly
:
Paul Kelly was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. He had one of the most remarkable lives of any Hollywood actor ever! He was a successful juvenile actor in the 1910s, and unlike almost every other juvenile of that time period, he successfully transitioned to adult roles. But he became best friends with a married couple Ray Raymond and Dorothy Mackaye in 1927, and he began an affair with Mackaye, and after a night of much drinking, Raymond began beating Mackaye, and Kelly beat Raymond so badly, he went in the hospital, and later died! Kelly was convicted of manslaughter, but the judge and jury were obviously sympathetic to him, and while he served in San Quentin prison, he only served 25 months. He got out in 1930, and surprisingly, he was easily able to resume his film career, and he married Mackaye, who had waited for him. He moved to Broadway after World War II, and won a Tony Award for "Command Decision", and originated the role of the alcoholic actor in "The Country Girl", but the film versions of both of these went to other actors, because Kelly was not a big enough draw. He never became a major star, but he remained active throughout his long career. Kelly passed away in 1956 at the age of 57.
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.
More Info on Raoul Walsh
:
Raoul A. Walsh (March 11, 1887 – December 31, 1980) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. He was known for portraying John Wilkes Booth in the silent classic
The Birth of a Nation
(1915) and for directing such films as
The Big Trail
(1930), starring John Wayne,
High Sierra
(1941), starring Ida Lupino and Humphrey Bogart, and
White Heat
(1949), starring James Cagney and Edmond O'Brien. He directed his last film in 1964.
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Slide Condition:
The Glass Slide is NM, the cardboard holder VG-EX+ (shows some wear).
Please see the scans for actual condition.
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