The Skipper Surprised His Wife, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Robert Walker "Rare"

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The Skipper Surprised His Wife, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, R. Walker, J. Leslie
The Skipper Surprised His Wife, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, R. Walker, J. Leslie
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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 1950, comedy feature, "The Skipper Surprised His Wife".
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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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
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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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His Girl Friday
, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
1940 -
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1940 -
Santa Fe Trail
,
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1940 -
Strike Up the Band
, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland
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The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits
, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
,
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The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
,
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The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
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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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Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
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1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
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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:
When a naval officer's wife breaks her ankle and is laid up, her husband takes over running the household by employing military regimentation and discipline, which leads to a number of amusing situations.
Trivia
:
The destroyer seen at the beginning of the film depicted as the U.S.S. Donegan is actually the U.S.S. Stickell (DD-888), one of 98 Gearing-class destroyers made near and after the end of WWII. Commissioned in 1945, she served the U.S. Navy until 1972, earning six battle stars for Korea, and one for Vietnam. She was then transferred to the Greek Navy and renamed the Kanaris (D212). Finally decommissioned in 1993, she was scrapped in 2002.
The electric ironing machine Bill struggles with is not some studio-made comical contraption, but is an actual home appliance. It appears to be a Sears Kenmore, or a Simplex (the manufacturer). The nameplates have been removed from the front of the lid. It was also referred to as a "mangle". In 1950 the list price for one of these machines was 9.95. Bill said he paid 3, so he got a good bargain.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1950
Genre:
Comedy
Director(s):
Elliott Nugent
Producer(s):
William H. Wright
Cast
:
Robert Walker as Cmdr. William J. Lattimer
Joan Leslie as Daphne Lattimer
Edward Arnold as Adm. Homer Thorndyke
Spring Byington as Agnes Thorndyke
Leon Ames as Dr. Phillip Abbott
Jan Sterling as Rita Rossini
Anthony Ross as Joe Rossini
Paul Harvey as Brendon Boyd
Kathryn Card as Thelma Boyd
Tommy Myers as Tommy Lattimer
Rudy Lee as Davey Lattimer
Finnegan Weatherwax as Muscles
More Info on Robert Walker:
Robert Walker was born in 1918, but sadly he only lived until the age of 32. He was a brooding sensitive actor before the likes of Clift and Brando. He had several major hits between 1943 and 1946, including Since You Went Away, and the excellent cult favorite, The Clock, with Judy Garland.
But his wife, Jennifer Jones (with whom he had two young children), began having an affair with producer David O. Selznick in 1943, and two years later the affair became publicly known and they separated, and his heart was broken and he became a major alcoholic, and career suffered greatly (meanwhile, Selznick dumped his wife and married Jones).
In 1951 he made a great comeback as the crazy murderous Bruno in Hitchcock's Strangers On a Train, but he passed away the year it was released, after an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Walker was 32 years old. He gave a quote that accurately summed up the tragedy of his life: "My personal life has been completely wrecked by David Selznick's obsession for my wife. What can you do to fight such a powerful man?"
More Info on Joan Leslie
:
Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel) was an actress from the 1930s to the 1990s. She started acting in 1936 at the age of 11, and she was billed under her real name of Joan Brodel, and she sang and danced, and she did not get to use those talents in enough of her movies. She had her breakthrough in 1941 in High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart, and she was Joan Leslie from then on! Some of her other movies include: Yankee Doodle Dandy, Repeat Performance, and Sergeant York. She passed away in 2015 at the age of 90.
More Info on Edward Arnold:
Edward Arnold was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. Despite his large girth, he became a very successful character actor (and sometimes leading actor) in lots of 1930s and 1940s movies, lots of which were with Columbia Pictures, including several Frank Capra movies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, and You Can't Take it With You. He played Rex Stout's literary detective Nero Wolfe in a 1936 movie, and he was very memorable in 1935's Crime and Punishment, and he added much to every movie he was in! He passed away in 1956 at the age of 66.
More Info on Spring Byington
:
Spring Byington was an actress from the 1930s to the 1960s. She was one of the first Hollywood actresses to embrace television, and she had a big hit in the 1950s with TV's "December Bride". Some of her roles include: Please Don't Eat the Daises, The Devil and Miss Jones, The Rocket Man, Because You're Mine, Bannerline, Dragonwyck, Roxie Hart, Jezebel, You Can't Take It With You (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and Werewolf in London. She passed away in 1971 at the age of 84.
More Info on Leon Ames
:
Leon Ames was a character actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include: Reckless, Mr. Moto in Danger Island, Anchors Aweigh, From the Terrace, On Moonlight Bay, and Peggy Sue Got Married. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 81.
More Info on Jan Sterling
:
Jan Sterling was an actress from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was born in Manhattan in 1921, but her wealthy parents divorced when she was eight, and she grew up all over the world, but spent a lot of time in England, where she developed an English accent.
At 17, she became a Broadway actress, having much success over the 1940s playing British ladies (she was billed as "Jane Adrian"). In 1947, she got the lead in "Born Yesterday" in its Chicago stage version, and she was a big hit, and it was thought that she would surely appear in the film version, which was made in 1950, but that was not to be (Judy Holliday, who played in the New York stage version, was chosen to play the lead over Sterling).
She had great success in the movies in the 1950s, in films such as Caged (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), and The High & The Mighty (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; 1954).
In 1959 her husband, actor Paul Douglas, died of a heart attack, and she quit the movies, returning to New York where she did much TV and stage work. She passed away in 2004 at the age of 83.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
Slide Condition: Good-VG, missing tape on 3 edges and the top glass, (image still looks good). 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.
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