Brigham Young, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger

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Brigham Young, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
Brigham Young, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger
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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, historical western feature, "Brigham Young".
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:
The true story of the famous Mormon leader, Brigham Young (Dean Jagger) and his battle to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to settle in Salt Lake City. The plot focuses on two of his people, Jonathan Kent (Tyrone Power) and Zina Webb (Linda Darnell) and the hardships they have to face along the way.
Trivia
:
Linda Darnell said that she did not appreciate the shooting of this movie. She felt alone whilst Henry Hathaway and Tyrone Power stayed by their side, away from her. She also told that the overall atmosphere on the set was hard work and dirt everywhere.
A technician on the shooting said later that Henry Hathaway was a dictator like man; working with him was like having a rattle snake in one's pocket. Everyone had to be very careful about everything to avoid his wrath.
Moroni Olsen was the only principal cast member who was a Mormon. Dean Jagger was not a member of that church when he portrayed its leader, but he did join some 32 years later.
According to a MovieTone newsreel, the Salt Lake City premiere of Brigham Young, a month before the New York premiere, was the largest premiere in film history. 215,000 people crowded the streets of Salt Lake City to view a massive parade, complete with floats and racing cars with the stars riding in them. Twentieth Century Fox's studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, also the producer of the film, had a part in planning the parade. The Salt Lake City Mayor named that August 23rd Brigham Young Day- the first and only. Originally, one theatre in Salt Lake City was to show the film, but the demand for seats became so high that eventually seven theatres in the city showed the film.
Parts of the film were shot in Lone Pine, California, in the plains west of Parowan Gap, and in Utah Lake for the seagull scenes. The Salt Lake City sequences were filmed in California, while the trek across Nebraska and Wyoming was shot in southern Utah.
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Date:
1940
Genre:
History,
Biography, Drama
, Adventure, Romance
Director(s):
Henry Hathaway
Producer(s):
Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
:
Tyrone Power as Jonathan Kent
Linda Darnell as Zina Webb – The Outsider
Dean Jagger as Brigham Young
Brian Donlevy as Angus Duncan
Jane Darwell as Eliza Kent
John Carradine as Porter Rockwell
Mary Astor as Mary Ann Young
Vincent Price as Joseph Smith
Jean Rogers as Clara Young
Ann E. Todd as Mary Kent
Willard Robertson as Heber Kimball
Moroni Olsen as Doc Richards
Marc Lawrence as Prosecutor
Stanley Andrews as Hyrum Smith
Dickie Jones as Henry Kent
Selmer Jackson as Caleb Kent
Arthur Aylesworth as Jim Bridger
Chief John Big Tree as Big Elk
Claire Du Brey as Emma Smith
Tully Marshall as Judge
Dick Rich as 1st Mob Leader
Edwin Maxwell as 2nd Mob Leader
George Melford as John Taylor
Russell Simpson as U.S. Army Major
Tom London as Raider (uncredited)
Charles Middleton as Mob Member (uncredited)
More Info on Tyrone Power Jr
:
Tyrone Power Jr. was born Tyrone Edmund Power, Jr. in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1914. His father was the very noted stage actor
Tyrone Power Sr
, who also made some movies. Surprisingly Tyrone Jr. was a frail, sickly child, and his parents moved to California in the hopes it would help his health. When he was a small boy his parents divorced, and his mother later moved to Cincinnati, where her family was from, and she was a stage actress, and also as a drama and voice coach. Tyrone spent the summer of 1931 with his famous father, but his dad died later that year. He tried to follow in his father's footsteps in movies, but found few parts. He went to New York, where he appeared in a few plays, and in 1936 he was signed to a contract by 20th Century Fox. After a few small parts, he was given the lead in Lloyd's of London (although he was 4th billed!), and that made him a major star. He became Fox's answer to Warner's Errol Flynn and MGM's Robert Taylor, and he starred in 21 movies (including
Jesse James
, The Mark of Zorro, where he showed great prowess as a swordsman, and
Blood and Sand
) between 1937 and 1942, when he joined the Marine Reserves. He made Crash Dive in 1943 while serving, and then his next movie was The Razor's Edge in 1946. The following year Power tried to change his image with the lead in the gritty film noir, Nightmare Alley, but the film (although excellent) did not do well at the box office, and he returned to action movies. But Power was tired of playing the same sorts of roles over and over, and in 1950 he went to England and played the lead in Mister Roberts on the stage, and then John Brown's Body on Broadway, and on a national tour, followed by another play, The Dark is Light Enough. In between he did some movies, but his heart was not in them. In 1957 he made Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution, where he was wonderful as Leonard Vole. It makes one wonder how many other fine performances he might have given had he not been pushed into so many action movies. The next year Power was back on stage, but he signed to play the lead in Solomon and Sheba, returning him to the swashbuckling type of role he had tried to get away from for so long. Ironically, he died of a heart attack while filming a dueling scene in 1958. He was just 44 years old. Tyrone Power's name is synonymous with being a great lover, but all he really wanted was to be a great actor. One wonders if his great looks that made women swoon didn't hurt his career just as much as it helped him.
More Info on Linda Darnell
:
Linda Darnell was born Monetta Eloyse Darnell in Texas in 1923. Hers surely is one of the most amazing and tragic Hollywood stories ever! Most remember her as the exotic beauty of the late 1930s and early 1940s. But few know that she had "matured" super early and that her stage mother mom had her working as an adult model at age 11 (telling people she was 16). Her mom got her a Hollywood screen test at 15, and they wanted to hire her, but told her mom she had to wait until she was 16. The following year, 1939, she had a sexy debut in Hotel For Women (she looked far older with the right make-up), and the same year she had the lead against
Tyrone Power Jr
. in Day Time Wife (still only 16!), becoming the youngest leading lady ever in Hollywood. She had several major successes over the following years and in 1947, she appeared in Forever Amber, which included a scene of her surviving being trapped by a fire. She had a very sad personal life, married and divorced three times, and an alcoholic through most of her adult life. In 1965 at just 41 years of age, she was staying at her former secretary's house and was watching one of her earliest hits, "Star Dust", and a fire started and she was burned to death, having made 46 movies. Some of her other movies include:
My Darling Clementine
, The Mark of Zorro, and
The Song of Bernadette.
More Info on Dean Jagger
:
Dean Jagger was born in 1903. Although he started in movies in 1929, he is best remembered for the movies he made in his late forties, when he was a very dependable character actor in movies such as
12 O'Clock High
(winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and in Executive Suite, Bad Day at Black Rock,
White Christmas
, and many others. But did you know that in 1940 he played the title role in
Brigham Young
? He studied the religion when preparing for the role, converting many years later. He passed away in 1991 at the age of 87.
More Info on Brian Donlevy
:
Brian Donlevy was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was born Waldo Brian Donlevy in 1901, and supposedly he managed to enlist in the army in 1916, at the age of 14! He stayed in the army through the early 1920s, becoming a pilot. In the early 1920s, he started acting, and had a few film roles. He became a top actor in the mid 1930s, primarily playing "heavies" or bad guys, and he appeared in many of Paramount's best movies of the 1940s, and also some great ones at other studios. One of his rare "non-bad guy" roles was as the star of "Two Years Before the Mast". Some of his movies include: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek,
Destry Rides Again
, Beau Geste, The Great McGinty, Kiss of Death, and the Big Combo. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 71.
More Info on John Carradine:
John Carradine was an actor from the 1930s to 1990. Some of his movies include:
Bride of Frankenstein
, The Grapes of Wrath, and
House of Frankenstein
. Of course, he is father to David, Keith, and Robert Carradine, who all went on to have Hollywood careers! He passed away in 1988 at the age of 82.
More Info on Mary Astor
:
Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois in 1906, and was far from an overnight success. Two years later, she had a major success appearing in "Beau Brummel" opposite
John Barrymore
in 1924 (at Barrymore's request), and the 18 year old Mary had an affair with the 42 year old Barrymore. Her parents broke off the affair with Barrymore and virtually kept her a prisoner in the lavish home they bought with her ,500 a week earnings (she received only a weekly allowance!). She had some success in her movies over the following years, but the advent of sound looked like it might be a career ender for her (and it was for so many actors at that time), because she failed a "sound test" and was released from her contract! But she took voice and singing lessons, and after appearing in a successful stage play, she was re-hired. She had married a director in 1929, but he was killed in a plane crash in 1930, which gave her a nervous breakdown. She was treated by a doctor, whom she married the following year! In 1932 she got a lead role (opposite Clark Gable and Jean Harlow) in
Red Dust
. She had a major success in
The Kennel Murder Case
, opposite William Powell. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman, and other celebrities. In 1935, her doctor husband divorced her, and due to her behavior, asked for custody of their young daughter. He had stolen her diary which documented her affair with Kaufman. While the custody hearing was going on she was filming Dodsworth (as Edith Cortright), and rather than hurt her career, the scandal seemed to help it! In 1937 she moved back to New York, where she acted on the stage and appeared on radio. In 1941, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Great Lie" (Bette Davis helped her get the part, and they remained good friends for life), and had her most memorable role that same year in "
The Maltese Falcon
" as Brigid O'Shaughnessy. She signed a contract with MGM, which gave her some needed financial security, but which sadly did not give her many movies worthy of her great talent. She continued acting until 1964 (one of her best later roles was in Return to Peyton Place in 1961), making a total of 123 movies, and she lived for another 21 years (16 of those at the Motion Picture Country Home) until she passed away in 1987 at the age of 81. Mary Astor was a charming. beautiful and very talented actress who never was in the first rank of leading ladies, likely mostly because of her turbulent private life, but she did leave behind many memorable performances, although most of the best of them were as a secondary performer, and not as the lead.
More Info on Vincent Price
:
Vincent Price (actually "Vincent L. Price Jr.") was a legendary actor from the 1930s to the 1990s. He is best remembered for his contributions to the horror genre, and some of his movies include:
The Fly
, Laura, The Ten Commandments,
Theater of Blood
, The Abominable Dr. Phibes,
The Last Man on Earth
, and Edward Scissorhands. He passed away in 1993 at the age of 82.
More Info on Jane Darwell
:
Jane Darwell was an actress from the 1920s to the 1960s. She was a great character actress who is best remembered as "Ma Joad" in
The Grapes Of Wrath
(winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and some of her other movies include:
Gone with the Wind
, Mary Poppins, and The Ox-Bow Incident. She passed away in 1967 at the age of 87.
More Info on Darryl F. Zanuck
:
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career was rivaled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He earned three Academy Awards as producer for Best Picture during his tenure, but was responsible for many more.
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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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