After Midnight, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix , "Film Noir"

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After Midnight, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix , "Film Noir"
After Midnight, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Alan Ladd, Wanda Hendrix , "Film Noir"
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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, crime drama/ "Film Noir" feature, "After Midnight" a.k.a. "Captain Carey, U.S.A.".
I am selling off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 130). 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
1940 -
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
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,
SOLD
1940 -
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
1940 -
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
1940 -
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 -
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
1941 -
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 -
Suspicion
- Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
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
1949 -
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 -
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 -
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
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:
A group of agents of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (a forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency) is sent to German-occupied Italy during World War II to knock out the German-held Italian railroad system. In accomplishing this mission, most of them are killed because of an inside betrayal.
After the war, one of the survivors, Captain Webster Carey (Alan Ladd), resolves to find the traitor. Captain Carey returns to Orta, near Milan, to find out who betrayed his World War II O.S.S. team and caused the deaths of several villagers. Much to his surprise, his old love Giulia (Wanda Hendrix), whom he thought dead at the hands of the Nazis, is alive and married to a powerful Italian nobleman, Barone Rocco de Greffi (Francis Lederer). The villagers are unfriendly, but Carey persists in his clandestine efforts to flush out the traitor, Barone Rocco de Greffi (Francis Lederer).
Trivia:
The theme song, "Mona Lisa", was performed in the film by Charlie Spivak with Tommy Lynn. Jay Livingston and Ray Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. It was a #1 hit for Nat King Cole in 1950.
Studio:
Paramount
Date:
1950
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller, "Film Noir"
Director(s):
Mitchell Leisen
Producer(s):
Richard Maibaum
Cast
:
Alan Ladd as Captain Webster Carey
Wanda Hendrix as Baronessa Giulia de Greffi
Francis Lederer as Barone Rocco de Greffi
Joseph Calleia as Dr. Lunati
Celia Lovsky as Countess Francesca de Cresci
Richard Avonde as Count Carlo de Cresci
Frank Puglia as Luigi
Luis Alberni as Sandro
Angela Clarke as Serafina
Roland Winters as Manfredo Acuto
Paul Lees as Frank
Jane Nigh as Nancy
Russ Tamblyn as Pietro (as Rusty Tamblyn)
Virginia Farmer as Angelina
David Leonard as Blind Musician
Ernő Verebes as Detective
Ray Walker as Mr. Simmons
Argentina Brunetti as Villager (uncredited)
Gino Corrado as Villager (uncredited)
More Info on Alan Ladd:
Alan Ladd was a major leading actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Surprisingly, he appeared in a number of movies before he became a major star with his portrayal as a hired killer in "This Gun For Hire" in 1941. Some of his movies include: Shane, The Carpetbaggers, The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, and Two Years Before the Mast. He married much older Sue Carol, who had been a major actress in the 1920s and early 1930s, and who had become an agent. They remained married until he passed away in 1964 at the age of 50 from a drug and alcohol overdose.
More Info on Wanda Hendrix
:
Wanda Hendrix was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: Ride the Pink Horse, Prince of Foxes, The Black Dakotas, and Confidential Agent. She passed away in 1981 at the age of 52.
More Info on Joseph Calleia
:
Joseph Calleia was a Maltese actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: The Divorce Racket, The Alamo, The Glass Key, Touch of Evil, and Gilda. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 78.
More Info on Francis Lederer
:
Francis Lederer was an Austro-Hungarian (in what is now the Czech Republic) actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. Born in 1899, he served in World War I, and then became a stage actor in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
His first movie was in 1928, and in 1929 he got a big break with an important role in G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks. His career really took off when sound movies began (the movies preferred stage actors when they made the transition from silent to sound, and Lederer had a decade of stage experience).
In 1931 he appeared in London in the stage play Volpone, and the show traveled to Broadway and then to Hollywood over the next two years, and Lederer decided to stay in Los Angeles, due to the worsening situation in his homeland.
He played leading roles in 1934 and 1935, and he was a favorite of Irving Thalberg, who announced that he would make Lederer "the biggest star in Hollywood" but the death of Thalberg in 1935 ended that, and Lederer was soon playing secondary roles, and he spent the rest of the 1930s and the 1940s alternating between movies and the stage, and then in the 1950s he added in much television work.
He became an acting teacher, but because he had wisely invested in real estate in the Los Angeles area, he had became extremely wealthy, but he never quit teaching acting and he was still teaching the week before he passed away in 2000, at the age of 100!
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
Slide Condition: Good-VG, cracked slide. 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.
I will combine lots to save on the shipping costs and I use USPS 1st class shipping (it gives both of us tracking of the package).
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