Gone With the Wind, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, "Rare"

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Gone With the Wind, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, "Rare"
Gone With the Wind, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, "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, romance feature, "Gone With the Wind".
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...
Although the film was originally released in December 1939, that was the roadshow release shown in a few theaters around the country. By February 1940, the film went into a wider release and to allay the public's fears that the film would be abridged, MGM announced that:
Limited Engagement! Exactly As Origianlly Presented, Nothing Cut But The Price!....
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:
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.
Trivia
:
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star in one of the most important pictures ever made. The film went on to win Oscars for Best Picture, Actress, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actress among others.
The fact that Hattie McDaniel would be unable to attend the premiere in racially segregated Atlanta outraged Clark Gable so much that he threatened to boycott the premiere unless she could attend. He later relented when she convinced him to go.
Hattie McDaniel became the first Black person to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award.
Hattie McDaniel was criticized by some African-Americans for playing in a supposedly racist film. She responded that she would "rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one".
At nearly four hours long, this is the longest running of all motion pictures to win the prestigious Academy Award for Best Picture.
When Rhett pours Mammy a drink after the birth of Bonnie, for a joke during a take, Clark Gable actually poured alcohol instead of the usual tea into the decanter without Hattie McDaniel knowing it until she took a swig.
Until her death on July 26, 2020 at 104, Olivia de Havilland was the lone survivor of the four principal leads since the death of Vivien Leigh in 1967. DeHavilland was the only major cast member to live to celebrate the 70th and 80th anniversaries of the picture's premiere on December 15, 2009 and 2019.
The first scene to be shot was the burning of the Atlanta Depot, filmed on 10 December 1938. If there was a major mistake during the filming, the entire film might have been scrapped. They actually burned many old sets that needed to be cleared from the studio back lot, including ones from The Garden of Allah (1936) and the "Great Wall" set from King Kong (1933). The fire cost over ,000 and yielded 113 minutes of footage. It was so intense that Culver City residents jammed the telephones lines, thinking MGM was burning down. Scarlett was stunt-doubled by Aline Goodwin and Lila Finn, while Rhett was doubled by veteran stuntmen Yakima Canutt and Jay Wilsey.
Studio:
Selznick International Pictures,
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1939, (1940, the wider Film release)
Genre:
History, Drama, Romance
Director(s):
Victor Fleming
Producer(s):
David O. Selznick
Cast
:
Tara plantation
Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara
Barbara O'Neil as Ellen O'Hara (his wife)
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara (daughter)
Evelyn Keyes as Suellen O'Hara (daughter)
Ann Rutherford as Carreen O'Hara (daughter)
George Reeves as Brent Tarleton (actually as Stuart)
Fred Crane as Stuart Tarleton (actually as Brent)
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy (house servant)
Oscar Polk as Pork (house servant)
Butterfly McQueen as Prissy (house servant)
Victor Jory as Jonas Wilkerson (field overseer)
Everett Brown as Big Sam (field foreman)
At Twelve Oaks
Howard Hickman as John Wilkes
Alicia Rhett as India Wilkes (his daughter)
Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes (his son)
Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton (their cousin)
Rand Brooks as Charles Hamilton (Melanie's brother)
Carroll Nye as Frank Kennedy (a guest)
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler (a visitor from Charleston)
In Atlanta
Laura Hope Crews as Aunt Pittypat Hamilton
Eddie Anderson as Uncle Peter (her coachman)
Harry Davenport as Dr. Meade
Leona Roberts as Mrs. Meade
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Merriwether
Ona Munson as Belle Watling
Minor supporting roles
Paul Hurst as the Yankee deserter
Cammie King as Bonnie Blue Butler
J. M. Kerrigan as Johnny Gallagher
Jackie Moran as Phil Meade
Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Bonnie's nurse in London
Marcella Martin as Cathleen Calvert
Mickey Kuhn as Beau Wilkes
Irving Bacon as the Corporal
William Bakewell as the mounted officer
Isabel Jewell as Emmy Slattery
Eric Linden as the amputation case
Ward Bond as Tom, the Yankee captain
Cliff Edwards as the reminiscent soldier
Yakima Canutt as the renegade
Louis Jean Heydt as the hungry soldier holding Beau Wilkes
Olin Howland as the carpetbagger businessman
Robert Elliott as the Yankee major
Mary Anderson as Maybelle Merriwether
More Info on Clark Gable
:
Clark Gable was born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio in 1901. His mom died before he was one year old, and his dad re-married when he was two. His stepmom encouraged him to pursue singing, playing music, and acting. Gable left home at 16 and had odd jobs, but at 21 came into an inheritance and began trying to make a living acting. He moved to Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, a stage manager 17 years older than he was. She immediately recognized Gable's great potential, and became his personal "coach", teaching him acting, and also paying to have his teeth fixed and to dress better. In 1924 they moved to Hollywood and were married, and she also officially became his "manager". But Gable only got bit parts in movies, and he returned to the stage, first in Houston and then in New York. After he played a killer in The Last Mile on Broadway to much acclaim, he was signed by MGM to a contract, in 1930 and he also divorced his wife and immediately married again. In 1931, Gable was the lead "heavy" in in The Painted Desert, a cowboy movie starring William Boyd, and he also appeared in 12 other MGM movies that year! Most were pretty minor roles, but Joan Crawford had spotted him and asked for him to play a key role in
Dance, Fools, Dance
, and they ended up making a total of eight films together, and they had an on-again off-again affair for many years, including when one or both were married! Gable was the top male star of the 1930s, and his good friend Spencer Tracy dubbed him the King of Hollywood, and the nickname stuck. He co-starred opposite every top female MGM star, most notably Crawford and Jean Harlow. In 1934 MGM "loaned" Gable to Columbia to make
It Happened One Night
, and he won the Best Actor Oscar. In 1939 he was loaned to David Selznick to make
Gone With the Wind
, so ironically, even though Gable is strongly identified with MGM, his two greatest hits were made for other studios (although MGM did distribute Gone With the Wind). In 1935 Gable made The
Call of the Wild
with Loretta Young, and they had an affair, which resulted in a baby, and since that could have meant the end of both their careers, Young took a year off and pretended to adopt her own baby! In 1939 Gable divorced again and immediately married again, this time to film star
Carole Lombard
. By all accounts they were very happy together, but in 1942, Lombard was killed in a plane crash while selling war bonds, and Gable was devastated, and joined the Army Air Force at the age of 41. There he made recruiting films, but also went on five combat missions. After the war, Gable married two more times, in 1949, and in 1955. His post-War movies are mostly not very good, in part because Gable insisted on always playing a romantic lead, often with a much younger leading lady. In 1961 he was paired with Marilyn Monroe (and Mongomery Clift) in
The Misfits
, and that proved to be both Gable and Monroe's final movie. Gable had been a heavy smoker and drinker all his life, and he wanted to look his best opposite Marilyn, and he went on a crash diet, and soon after the movie was finished he had a heart attack, passing away in 1960 at the age of 59. Four months after his death, his wife gave birth to their son, John Clark Gable. If you want to understand why Gable was such an incredibly popular male star (maybe the greatest of all time) I suggest you begin with It Happened One Night. Gable is wonderful, as is the entire movie!
More Info on Vivian Leigh
:
Vivien Leigh was an English actress from the 1930s to the 1960s. She is of course best remembered for playing Scarlet O'Hara in
Gone With The Wind
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film). Some of her other movies include:
A Streetcar Named Desire
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Waterloo Bridge, and
Fire Over England
. She was married for many years to Laurence Olivier. They first met when they were making a movie together, and were married to other people, later divorcing their respective spouses and marrying each other. Unfortunately, Leigh struggled with bipolar disorder, as well as two miscarriages, and she and Olivier eventually divorced in 1961. Leigh passed away in 1967 at the age of 53 from tuberculosis.
More Info on Leslie Howard
:
Leslie Howard was a top English star from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: Gone With the Wind,
Pygmalion
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), In Which We Serve, Forty-Ninth Parallel, Berkeley Square (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and
The Petrified Forest
. Howard was at the height of his popularity when he passed away in 1943 at the age of 50, when the plane he was in was shot down by Germans.
More Info on Olivia De Havilland
:
Olivia De Havilland was an actress who performed from the 1930s to the 1980s. She was often paired with
Errol Flynn
. Some of her movies include:
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, Gone With the Wind (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), The Heiress (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
To Each His Own
(winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Hold Back The Dawn (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Snake Pit (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and
Captain Blood
. Her sister was Joan Fontaine, and they had a many decades-long (and never resolved) feud. She passed away in 2020 at the age of 104.
More Info on Hattie McDaniel
:
Hattie McDaniel was an actress from the 1930s to the 1950s. She was one of the first black African American performers to achieve success in mainstream Hollywood movies. She is best remembered for her role as "Mammy" in "
Gone with the Wind
", and she appeared in 95 movies between 1932 and 1949, and she had her own TV show, "
Beulah
", in the 1950s. She was even the inspiration for the "Mammy Two Shoes" character in the
Tom & Jerry
cartoons! But because she almost exclusively played stereotyped roles throughout her career, her work is little seen today (except of course for "Gone with the Wind"). That is especially unfortunate, because she had an even more significant career than most people realize. She is believed to be the first black woman to sing on the radio (in 1915), and she was a major vaudeville and cabaret singing star in the 1910s and 1920s! Perhaps a movie can be made about her remarkable career. McDaniel passed away in 1952 at the age of 59.
More Info on Thomas Mitchell:
Thomas Mitchell was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include:
Stagecoach
(winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), It's a Wonderful Life,
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
, Hurricane (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and
High Noon
. He passed away in 1962 at the age of 70.
More Info on Butterfly McQueen
:
Butterfly McQueen (born Thelma McQueen) was a black African American actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include:
Gone With the Wind
(as the house servant, Prissy; where she had the memorable line, "I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies"),
A Midsummer Night's Dream
, and Brown Sugar. She passed away in 1995 at the age of 84.
More Info on Ann Rutherford
:
Ann Rutherford was a Canadian actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: Gone with the Wind (as Carreen), Pride and Prejudice,
A Christmas Carol
, and the
Andy Hardy
movies (as Polly Benedict). She passed away in 2012 at the age of 94.
More Info on George Reeves
:
George Reeves was an actor from the 1930s to 1959. Some of his movies include: Gone with the Wind, From Here to Eternity, and So Proudly We Hail! Of course, he will always be best remembered for his role as Superman in the TV series "
The Adventures of Superman
". Very sadly, Mr. Reeves was found dead in June of 1959. He was 45. It was ruled a suicide, supposedly because Mr. Reeves was despondent over not being able to get roles since he was so typecast as Superman, but many, many people have strongly questioned that, and believe he was actually murdered, and that the murder was covered up.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
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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