Tin Pan Alley, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Alice Faye, Betty Grable "Very Rare"

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Tin Pan Alley, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Alice Faye, Betty Grable "Very Rare"
Tin Pan Alley, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Alice Faye, Betty Grable "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 1940, musical feature, "Tin Pan Alley".
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:
Tin Pan Alley, the 1940 Walter Lang New York City/London boxing romantic songwriting musical ("Based on a story by Pamela Harris"; about two men who want to be songwriters, but have so little success that one boxes to pay their bills; they meet a pair of singing sisters, and one of them falls in love with one of the men, and she lends the men the money to buy a great song on the condition that she can sing it, but the men double-cross her when a famous star offers to sing it, so she goes to London to join her sister in an act there, and the men enlist in the Army and they get sent to London, where they are reunited with the sisters!).
Trivia
:
Note that the meaning of the words "Tin Pan Alley" are pretty forgotten today, but in the days before television, just about every home had a piano, and sheet music sold in the millions! In New York City, starting around 1915, 46th Street and 8th Avenue became known as Tin Pan Alley, because that's where all of the song publishers were located, and every would-be songwriter would dream of selling their songs there!
The censors ordered the "Sheik of Araby" to be re-shot because the costumes of the harem girls were deemed too revealing.
Scenes which were deleted from final version appear in Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults (1997).
"He'd Have to Get Under - Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" (music by Maurice Abrahams, lyrics by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie), performed by Alice Faye, Betty Grable and Jack Oakie, was cut from this film.
After the huge success of Down Argentine Way (1940), a part was quickly written into this movie for Betty Grable.
"When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Red Rose)" (music by Jack Mahoney, lyric by Percy Wenrich), performed by Betty Grable was cut from this film. In the surviving version of this scene, Grable's voice is dubbed by someone else.
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Date:
1940
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Music
Director(s):
Walter Lang
Producer(s):
Kenneth Macgowan
Cast
:
Alice Faye as Katie Blane
Betty Grable as Lily Blane
Jack Oakie as Harry Calhoun
John Payne as Francis 'Skeets' Harrigan
Allen Jenkins as Casey
Esther Ralston as Nora Bayes
Fayard Nicholas as Dance Specialty
Harold Nicholas as Dance Specialty
Ben Carter as Boy
John Loder as Captain Reginald 'Reggie' Carstair
Elisha Cook Jr. as Joe Codd
Fred Keating as Harvey Raymond
More Info on Alice Faye:
Alice Faye was the leading 20th Century Fox actress from the 1930s to the 1940s and continued to work to the 1970s. She worked exclusively for 20th Century-Fox, and she was "like
Jean Harlow
, except she sang, too"! Some of her movies include: Alexander's Ragtime Band,
Tin Pan Alley
, Fallen Angel, In Old Chicago, The Gang's All Here, and Stowaway. She was married to bandleader Phil Harris for 54 years. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 83.
More Info on Betty Garble
:
Betty Grable was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s, often appearing in romantic musicals. Some of her movies include:
Million Dollar Legs
, Tin Pan Alley, Moon Over Miami, and
Down Argentine Way
. She is perhaps best remembered for her famous sexy legs, and one of her pin-up images, which was one of the absolute most popular ones displayed by soldiers during
World War II
(at one time, her legs were insured for ,000,000 by Lloyds of London!). She was married to actor Jackie Coogan, and then later to bandleader
Harry James
(with whom she had two children). She passed away in 1973 at the age of 56 from lung cancer.
More Info on Jack Oakie:
Jack Oakie was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his roles include:
The Great Dictator
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Tin Pan Alley,
Around the World in Eighty Days, Thieves Highway, If I Had a Million, and
Lover Come Back
. He passed away in 1978 at the age of 74.
More Info on John Payne:
John Payne was an actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He became an actor in 1936, but had only small success until he was signed by 20th Century-Fox in 1940, and he quickly became one of their top stars, and his most successful movie was the last one he made at Fox, "
Miracle on 34th Street
". He moved to RKO and reinvented himself as a tough film noir star, and he had a successful career over the next few decades (despite a car accident in 1961 which almost ended his life and sidelined him for two years while recovering). He was married to
Anne Shirley
from 1937 to 1943 (but she left him in January of 1942),
Gloria DeHaven
from 1944 to 1951, and Alexandra Crowell Curtis from 1951 to his death in 1989. Some of his other movies include: Kansas City Confidential, Tin Pan Alley, and
Sun Valley Serenade
. He passed away in 1989 at the age of 77.
More Info on Allen Jenkins
:
Allen Jenkins was a character actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. He appeared in dozens of Warner Bros. including: Grand Hotel,
42nd Street
, Dead End, Going Places,
Destry Rides Again,
Tin Pan Alley and Ball of Fire.  He moved to MGM in the late 1930s and appeared in many movies there, again often with top stars. He never hit the big time but was in many great movies. Jenkins passed away in 1974 at the age of 74.
More Info on Esther Ralston
:
Esther Ralston was an actress from the 1910s to the 1960s. She was called "The Gibson Girl of the Screen". Some of her movies include: The Kid, The Marriage Circle, Peter Pan, Love Goddesses, Oliver Twist, To the Last Man, and
Tin Pan Alley
. She passed away in 1994 at the age of 91.
More Info on Nicholas Brothers
:
The Nicholas Brothers were legendary black African American dancing brothers (Harold and Fayard) mostly from the 1930s to the 1950s. The brothers did acrobatic dancing that was the equal of Gene Kelly, but due to the prejudices of the time, they never achieved the mainstream stardom they would have had they not been black.
More Info on Ben Carter
:
Ben Carter was a black African American singer from the 1930s to the 1940s. He performed with the Ben Carter Choir. He also was the straight man to Mantan Moreland in a vaudeville act and had a very few solo dramatic movies, usually in stereotyped parts, typical of that era. However, he did all he could to break the barriers in show business that black performers faced in the 1930s and 1940s! He started a casting agency for black African American actors in Hollywood in the 1930s, and he claimed that he represented all the black actors in
Gone with the Wind
! He was one of the first black performers to be signed to a 7 year contract by a major Hollywood studio, in his case 20th Century-Fox. Sadly, he contracted diptheria, and he passed away in 1946 at the age of 35, or no doubt he would have had many more accomplishments.
More Info on Elisha Cook Jr.
:
Elisha Vanslyck Cook Jr. (December 26, 1903 – May 18, 1995) was an American stage, film and television character actor who often specialized in roles as "cowardly villains and neurotics". He is perhaps best remembered for his portrayal of Wilmer in the 1941 version of
The Maltese Falcon
and the futile efforts made by his character to intimidate Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in the film. Cook's acting career spanned more than 60 years, with roles in productions including
The Big Sleep
, Shane, The Killing,
House on Haunted Hill
, and Rosemary's Baby.
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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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