Francis, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Donald O'Conner, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts

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Francis, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Donald O'Conner, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts
Francis, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Donald O'Conner, Patricia Medina, Zasu Pitts
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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, "Francis".
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 truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Maureen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles.
Trivia
:
Included among the American Film Institute's 2000 list of the 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
Donald O'Connor's first of six "Francis" movies.
An impossibly young Tony Curtis, listed as "Anthony" Curtis, shows up in early scenes with a few lines.
Filming started 7 May 1949 and continued through to June. Parts of the film were shot at the now defunct Conejo Valley Airport in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Before its release in the U. S., Francis was first shown in January 1950 to Army troops stationed in West Germany.
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Date:
1950
Genre:
Screwball Fantasy Comedy, Drama
Director(s):
Arthur Lubin
Producer(s):
Robert Arthur
Cast
:
Donald O'Connor as Peter Stirling
Patricia Medina as Maureen Gelder
Chill Wills as Francis the talking mule
ZaSu Pitts as Nurse Valerie Humpert
Ray Collins as Colonel Hooker
John McIntire as General Stevens (as John McIntyre)
Eduard Franz as Colonel Plepper
Howland Chamberlain as Major Nadel
James Todd as Colonel Saunders
Robert Warwick as Colonel Carmichael
Frank Faylen as Sergeant Chillingbacker
Tony Curtis as Captain Jones (as Anthony Curtis)
Mikel Conrad as Major Garber
Loren Tindell as Major Richards
Charles Meredith as Munroe, the banker
More Info on Donald O'Connor
:
Donald O'Connor was an actor from the 1930s to the 2000s. He started as a juvenile actor in the late 1930s, and then was paired with
Gloria Jean
by Universal in an attempt to make musicals similar to MGM's featuring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. He continued as a popular musical actor throughout the 1940s, and in 1952, he had probably his greatest role in
Singin' in the Rain
, especially his "
Make 'em Laugh
" number! In the 1940s and 1950s, he was the star of the popular "
Francis the Talking Mule
" series of movies. Some of his other movies include: Out to Sea, That Funny Feeling, and Yes Sir That's My Baby. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 78.
More Info on Patricia Medina:
Patricia Medina was an English actress from the 1930s to the 1970s, mostly in westerns and adventure movies. Some of her movies include: The Three Musketeers,
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
, Francis, and Fortunes of Captain Blood. She passed away in 2012 at the age of 92.
More Info on Zasu Pitts
:
Zasu Pitts (born Eliza Susan Pitts and sometimes known as Zazu Pitts) was an actress from the 1910s to the 1960s. She had important roles in several early major movies, including The Wedding March,
All Quiet on the Western Front
, and Greed. In the 1930s, she switched to light comedy, appearing with Thelma Todd, and in many supporting roles. She starred opposite Gale Storm in TV's "
The Gale Storm Show
" in the 1950s. She passed away in 1963 at the age of 69.
More Info on Ray Collins
:
Ray Collins was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was a member of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Group, and he appeared in Welles' early movies, including "
Citizen Kane
". Some of his other roles include: Touch of Evil, The Desert Song and
Francis
. He is probably best remembered for his role as Lt. Tragg in TV's "
Perry Mason
". He passed away in 1965 at the age of 75.
More Info on John McIntire
:
John McIntire was a character actor from the 1940s to the 1980s. He was one of the better "B-actors", always giving a solid performance, often in westerns or crime movies. He never became a star (although he did get top billing in "The Phenix City Story"), but he had a very long and successful career. When the John Ford movie "
Wagonmaster
" was turned into a TV series, McIntire played the lead role. He passed away in 1991 at the age of 83.
More Info on Chill Wills
:
Chill Wills was a mostly western actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include: Giant,
Meet Me in St. Louis
, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,
The Alamo
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Rio Grande,
Mclintock!
, and the Yearling. He passed away in 1978 at the age of 76.
More Info on Tony Curtis
:
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz in The Bronx, New York City in 1925, the son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. He had a crappy childhood, and in WWII he served in the Navy. He got out in 1945 when the war ended, and went to acting school, and he was signed to a contract at Universal in 1948, where he changed his name to Anthony Curtis. His first movie was a tiny one in Cross Cross, but it was notable because that movie starred Burt Lancaster, with whom Curtis would later co-star in two very memorable movies. In 1951 he married
Janet Leigh
(he later admitted he primarily married her to advance his career), and in 1953 they co-starred in Houdini together. In 1956 he co-starred with
Lancaster and Lollabrigida
in Trapeze, and the following year he co-starred with Lancaster in Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's masterpiece, Sweet Smell of Success. In 1958 he was memorable in
The Defiant Ones
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film) opposite
Sidney Poitier
. In 1959 he had his best role ever, as the cross-dressing star of
Some Like It Hot
. In 1960 he took a supporting role in
Spartacus
. In 1968, with his career fading, he took the lead role of Albert DeSalvo in The Boston Strangler. But it did not do much to revive his career and over the next 40+ years he made many lesser movies and had many appearances on TV shows. In his later years, he pursued art, and had a successful business selling his artwork, no doubt many of them to fans who wanted a "Tony Curtis original". He passed away in 2010 at the age of 85. Curtis had six wives, and six children, the best known being actress
Jamie Lee Curtis
. He had well documented troubles with his families, and with drugs. Tony Curtis was in many of the most memorable films of the 1950s and 1960s, and even his lesser movies of that period are pretty entertaining. Perhaps his best move was his willingness to take secondary roles to other great actors, even though he could have solely played leading roles. I highly recommend seeing all of the movies noted above!
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.
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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