Father of the Bride, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor

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Father of the Bride, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor
Father of the Bride, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor
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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, "Father of the Bride".
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:
Proud father Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy) remembers the day his daughter, Kay (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way.
Trivia
:
Spencer Tracy wanted Katharine Hepburn for his screen wife, but it was felt that they were too romantic a team to play a happily domesticated couple with children, so Joan Bennett got the part.
MGM gave Dame Elizabeth Taylor a wedding gift of a one-off wedding dress designed by Helen Rose (a move also designed to promote this movie).
The picture on the nightstand at which Spencer Tracy looks was a real-life photo of Dame Elizabeth Taylor as a child.
In this movie, one of the gifts Kay (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) gets as a present is a Venus de Milo statue with a clock in the stomach, which Stanley T. Banks (Spencer Tracy) refers to as a "stinker". This same gift makes its way into the re-make (Father of the Bride (1991)) amongst the presents, and is still not received well.
The premiere took place twelve days after Dame Elizabeth Taylor's real-life May 6, 1950, marriage to Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr. The premiere took place on May 18, 1950 in New York City, and was later released to the general American public in June. The publicity surrounding her real-life marriage is credited with helping to make this movie so successful.
"Father of the Bride", the 1950 Vincente Minnelli romantic wedding marriage comedy ("M-G-M announces the Event of the Season!
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1950
Genre:
Comedy, Romance
Director(s):
Vincente Minnelli
Producer(s):
Pandro S, Berman
Cast
:
Spencer Tracy as Stanley T. Banks
Joan Bennett as Ellie Banks
Elizabeth Taylor as Kay Banks
Don Taylor as Buckley Dunstan
Billie Burke as Doris Dunstan
Moroni Olsen as Herbert Dunstan
Marietta Canty as Delilah
Russ Tamblyn as Tommy Banks
Tom Irish as Ben Banks
Paul Harvey as Reverend Galsworthy
Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Massoula
Richard Alexander as Moving Man (uncredited)
Fay Baker as Miss Bellamy - Stanley's Secretary (uncredited)
Larry Steers as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
More Info on Spencer Tracy
:
Spencer Tracy was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his best films were those he made with
Katharine Hepburn
(his love of many years). Some of his movies include: Judgment At Nuremberg (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Inherit the Wind (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Libeled Lady
, Bad Day At Black Rock (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Fury,
Boys Town
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Old Man & The Sea (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
San Francisco
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Father Of The Bride
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), Captains Courageous (winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and scores of others! He passed away in 1967 at the age of 67.
More Info on Joan Bennett:
Joan Bennett was an actress from the 1920s to the 1980s. Note that in her roles in the 1930s, she had short blonde hair, and in the early 1940s, she massively changed her appearance, with long dark hair (greatly resembling Hedy Lamarr!). She came from a famous acting family (her parents were Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison) and her sister
Constance Bennett
was also a successful actress, and they had a third sister, Barbara, who appeared in a few movies but then retired to become a wife and mother. Some of her movies include:
Scarlet Street
, The Woman in the Window, Little Women,
Father of the Bride
, and We're No Angels. She passed away in 1990 at the age of 80.
More Info on Elizabeth Taylor
:
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most legendary actresses of all time! Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She started as a child actress in the 1940s, became a teen actress in the 1950s, and became a major star from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Some of her movies include: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), North and South,
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), A Place in the Sun,
Giant
, Jane Eyre,
Father of the Bride
, National Velvet, Suddenly, Last Summer (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Raintree County (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Butterfield 8 (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and the "
Lassie
" films. Some consider her the most beautiful brunette actress of all time!
In August 1985, she and Dr. Michael Gottlieb founded the National AIDS Research Foundation after her friend and former co-star
Rock Hudson
announced that he was dying of the disease. In 2000, she was appointed a Dame Commander in the chivalric Order of the British Empire in the millennium New Year Honours List by
Queen Elizabeth II
. She passed away in 2011 at the age of 79.
More Info on Don Taylor
:
Don Taylor was an actor and director from the 1940s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include: Ride the Wild Surf, Father of the Bride, Submarine Command, and Stalag 17. He passed away in 1998 at the age of 78.
More Info on Billie Burke
:
Billie Burke (born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke) was an actress from the 1910s to the 1960s. She is best remembered as Glenda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, but she had been a major leading Broadway stage actress starting prior to 1910, and she became a leading movie actress starting in 1916, and continuing through the 1920s (and because she had been a Broadway star, she starred in her very first movie, "Peggy", in 1916). In 1921 she married showman Flo Ziegfeld, creator of "
The Ziegfeld Follies
", and she mostly retired from acting, but financial reversals caused by the Stock Market Crash in 1929 caused her to come out of retirement. She returned to the movies with many roles in the 1930s, and continued acting all the way until 1960!
She is best known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie musical
The Wizard of Oz
(1939). Some of her many other movies include: Merrily We Live (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), Father of the Bride, Dinner at Eight, Topper, The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Father's Little Dividend. Her marriage Flo Ziegfeld was covered (highly fictionalized) in the movie "The Great Ziegfeld". She passed away in 1970 at the age of 85.
More Info on Vincente Minnelli
:
Vincente Minnelli was a director from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include: An American In Paris (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), Meet Me in St. Louis, Paris Cinema (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), The Bad and the Beautiful, and The Band Wagon. Of course, he was also married to
Judy Garland
, and their daughter was Liza Minnelli! He passed away in 1986 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: EX-NM. 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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