Virginia City, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart "Very Rare"

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Virginia City, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart "Very Rare"
Virginia City, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Errol Flynn, Humphrey 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 1940, action feature, "Virginia City".
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:
During the American Civil War, Captain Kerry Bradford (Errol Flynn) escapes from a notorious confederate prison. He and two of his men are sent to Virginia City where Confederate sympathizers are prepared to donate million dollars to the cause of Southern independence. The war is going badly for the Confederacy and money may tip the war in their favor. On the stagecoach to Virginia City, Bradford meets and falls in love with Julia Hayne (Miriam Hopkins) not realizing that she is one of the conspirators. When he gets to Virginia City, he also runs into Confederate Captain Vance Irby (Randolp Scott) who has been sent to collect and safely deliver the gold. Irby manages to get out of the city but the Union cavalry is in hot pursue. When Bradfoed catches up with them, he not only has to fight Irby but also John Murrell (Humphrey Bogart), a bandit who has his own plans for the gold.
Trivia
:
One of only two films in which Humphrey Bogart wore a mustache. (The other was Isle of Fury (1936)
Errol Flynn made negotiations with Warner studios in order to use his own horse in several scenes of the film.
The name of the villain John Murrell was taken from the leader of a bandit gang that operated along the Mississippi River in the 1820s-40s. Murrell was a small time outlaw who attained legendary status due to a sensationalized account of his life and crimes published by Virgil Stewart. The largely fictional pamphlet even influenced Mark Twain, who considered Murrell to be as large a figure as Jesse James, and wrote of Injun Joe discovering Murrell's lost treasure in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The real life Murrell never traveled west of Arkansas, where various geographical features are named for him. He died of tuberculosis in 1844 - 19 years before Virginia City takes place. Oddly, in the film Humphrey Bogart played John Murrell with an on-again, off-again Mexican accent (it is not at all in evidence when Murrell first appears in the stagecoach scene, but seems to grow more pronounced as the film goes on).
The film was a follow up to Dodge City although it has entirely new characters and was not a sequel, predating it by eight years in historical time. It was originally called Nevada and was to star basically the same director and cast as Dodge City: Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ann Sheridan, Donald Crisp, Guinn Williams, and Alan Hale. The title was eventually changed to Virginia City, which had been owned by RKO, but they agreed to give it to Warners.
De Havilland dropped out and was replaced by Brenda Marshall. However, within a few weeks, Miriam Hopkins replaced her. Randolph Scott was hired to play Flynn's antagonist. Victor Jory was going to play the main villain, but had a scheduling conflict due to his appearance in Light of Western Stars. He was replaced by Humphrey Bogart, requiring It All Came True to be pushed back.
Studio:
Warner Brothers Pictures
Date:
1940
Genre:
Western, Action, History, Drama
Director(s):
Michael Curtiz
Producer(s):
Robert Fellows
Cast
:
Errol Flynn as Captain Kerry Bradford
Miriam Hopkins as Julia Hayne
Randolph Scott as Captain Vance Irby
Humphrey Bogart as John Murrell
Frank McHugh as Mr. Upjohn
Alan Hale as Olaf "Moose" Swenson
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as "Marblehead"
John Litel as Thomas Marshall
Douglass Dumbrille as Major Drewery
Moroni Olsen as Dr. Robert Cameron
Russell Hicks as John Armistead
Dickie Jones as Cobby Gill
Frank Wilcox as Union Outpost Soldier
Russell Simpson as Frank Gaylord
Victor Kilian as Abraham Lincoln
Charles Middleton as Jefferson Davis
Ward Bond as Confederate Sergeant (uncredited)
Roy Gordon as Maj. Gen. Taylor (uncredited)
Thurston Hall as Gen. George Meade (uncredited)
Howard C. Hickman as Confederate Gen. Page (uncredited)
Jack Mower as Outpost Officer (uncredited)
Charles Trowbridge as James Seddon (uncredited)
More Info on Errol Flynn:
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-born actor. Considered the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, he achieved worldwide fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles, frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland, and reputation for his womanising and hedonistic personal life. His most notable roles include the eponymous hero in
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(1938), which was later named by the American Film Institute as the 18th greatest hero in American film history, the lead role in
Captain Blood
(1935), Major Geoffrey Vickers in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and the hero in a number of Westerns such as Dodge City (1939),
Santa Fe Trail
(1940), and San Antonio (1945).
More Info on Miriam Hopkins
:
Miriam Hopkins was an actress from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of her movies include:
Virginia City
,Trouble in Paradise, The Heiress, Becky Sharp (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Smiling Lieutenant, These Three, and Design for Living. She passed away in 1972 at the age of 69.
More Info on Randolph Scott:
Randolph Scott was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s (although he had some uncredited roles in the very late 1920s). He played a wide variety of roles in the 1930s, but later in his career starred mostly in cowboy western movies. He had a very memorable final role in
Ride the High Country
, opposite Joel McCrea! Some of his other movies include:
Virginia City
, Seven Men From now,
My Favorite Wife
, The Tall T, and Ride Lonesome. Most people believe that he was a gay man, but because of the attitudes of the time, he had to "remain in the closet" (and there are some who dispute that he was gay; he was married twice, and had two adopted children, but also lived with Cary Grant for twelve years!). Scott passed away in 1987 at the age of 89.
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 Alan Hale Sr
:
Alan Hale, Sr. was born Rufus Alan MacKahan in Washington, D.C. in 1892. At 19 he got a part in a western, and under his stage name of Alan Hale he quickly settled in as one of the top character actors, appearing in over 80 movies between 1913 and 1917. He married actress Gretchen Hartman in 1914, and she herself appeared in 60 movies, but she pretty much retired when they had three children, one of whom was named Alan Hale Mackahan Jr., but was later called Alan Hale, Jr. Hale, Sr. took a break from movies from 1918 to 1921 (I could not discover what he was doing, but maybe he was just making babies!), but returned to making lots of movies, most notably appearing as Little John in the 1922 Robin Hood, opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. In the mid-1920s, he temporarily quit acting again and he directed seven movies, but he soon returned to acting. He had supporting roles (sometimes very minor) in many of the most memorable films of the 1930s. He became great friends with Errol Flynn, and he appeared in 13 of his movies, most notably reprising his role as Little John in the 1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, and though he was 16 years older, he looked little different. Hale continued appearing in movies throughout the 1940s, and ironically his final film came in 1950's
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
, where he played Little John for the third time, and he passed away soon after, having appeared in 236 movies in all! Meanwhile, his son,
Alan Hale Jr.
had grown to be almost a duplicate to his dad, and he appeared in many small roles starting from 1941, but never in a movie with his dad. Sometime after his father passed away he dropped the "Jr", and of course he got his big break in 1964 when he was cast as Jonas Grumby in a new TV show called
Gilligan's Island
, and he was strongly identified with that character (known as 'The Skipper') the rest of his life. He passed away in 1950 at the age of 57.
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 Michael Curtiz
:
Michael Curtiz was one of the greatest and least heralded directors of all time! He was born Mihaly Kertesz in Budapest, Hungary in 1886. He began acting and directing in Hungary in 1912. After WWI he started directing movies in Austria and Germany. In 1924, Curtiz directed his most ambitious film to date, Die Sklavenkonigin, which was set in ancient Egypt and tells of the oppression of the Jews under the rule of the Pharaoh. If this sounds remarkably similar to The Ten Commandments, which was being made in the U.S. by Cecil B. DeMille at the same time, it is because it was, and there are reports that Curtiz' film was superior! Cecil B. DeMille rightly worried that a U.S. release of Die Sklavenkonigin would hurt the box office of his movie, and he was able to use his influence to keep it from being release in the U.S. at all that year (it would finally be released by FBO under the title of Moon of Israel in 1927). But executives at Warner Bros saw Die Sklavenkonigin, and they convinced Curtiz to sign with them and move to the U.S. in 1926. This was their second best decision ever (other than making the first partial sound movie, The Jazz Singer, the following year!). It took Curtiz a couple of years to get used to making English language films, but once he did, he became Warners' top director, and he remained there for many years, with an output that puts EVERY other director to shame! He made many of the most memorable Warner Bros. movies of the 1930s and 1940s, including: Captain Blood (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film),
Four Daughters
(nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film),
Casablanca
, Yankee Doodle Dandy (Casablanca & Yankee both came out in 1942). He directed SIX movies in 1939 alone, and he directed over 100 movies for Warner Bros, on top of the 64 movies he had directed earlier. Yet because he did not have a distinctive directorial style ("auteur"), he fell out of favor with the leading film critics of the 1960s (another wonderful director who has a similar problem is William Wyler). My two personal favorite Michael Curtiz movies (along with Casablanca and
Yankee Doodle Dandy
) are
The Adventures of Robin Hood
and
Angels With Dirty Faces
(nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film).
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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.
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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