Gunga Din, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine

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Gunga Din, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
Gunga Din, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Joan Fontaine
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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 1939, adventure feature, "Gunga Din".
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:
Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., loosely based on the 1890 poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his 1888 short story collection Soldiers Three. The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India.
The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, with uncredited contributions by Lester Cohen, John Colton, William Faulkner, Vincent Lawrence, Dudley Nichols, and Anthony Veiller.
Trivia
:
Was second only to Gone with the Wind (1939) as the biggest money-maker of 1939.
Sabu was the first choice to play Gunga Din; when it became clear he was unavailable, Sam Jaffe was hired in his place. In an interview years later, Jaffe (a Jewish Russian-American) was asked how he so convincingly played an Indian Hindu. Jaffe replied he kept telling himself to "Think Sabu."
Upon release, a campaign was launched by the Indian magazine "Filmindia" against what it called misrepresentation of Indian characters in the film and the displaying of insensitivity towards Hindu customs. Following riots in India and Malaya, the film was withdrawn by the censors.
Budgeted at .915 million, this was the most expensive film RKO had produced to that date. It was nearly 0,000 over budget.
Cary Grant's character's name is Archibald Cutter. Archibald was Grant's real name--Archibald Leach. He only referred to it once while reading a letter. It was an inside joke.
Joan Fontaine fell in love with director George Stevens during filming.
Studio:
RKO Radio Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Military, Adventure, War, Comedy
Director(s):
George Stevens
Producer(s):
George Stevens
Cast
:
Cary Grant as Sgt. Archibald Cutter
Victor McLaglen as Sgt. 'Mac' MacChesney
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Sgt. Thomas 'Tommy' Ballantine
Sam Jaffe as Gunga Din
Eduardo Ciannelli as Guru
Joan Fontaine as Emaline 'Emmy' Stebbins
Montagu Love as Col. Weed
Robert Coote as Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham
Abner Biberman as Chota
Lumsden Hare as Maj. Mitchell
Cecil Kellaway as Mr. Stebbins (uncredited)
Reginald Sheffield as Rudyard Kipling (uncredited)
George Regas as Thug Chieftain (uncredited)
Roland Varno as Lt. Markham (uncredited)
More Info on Cary Grant
:
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alexander Leach in Bristol, England in 1904. After a bizarre childhood (he came home one day when he was nine and was told his chronically depressed mother had died, when actually his father had put her in a mental institution!), young Archie was kicked out of school and ran away and joined a group of stage acrobats. When he was 16 the group went on a two year tour of the U.S., and when the tour ended, he stayed and acted on the stage. In 1931 he had much success in regional theater in St. Louis, and he moved to Hollywood. At this point he changed his name to Cary Grant. After a few minor roles he starred in Blonde Venus opposite Marlene Dietrich, and in She Done Him Wrong, opposite Mae West (it is Grant she invites to come up and see her sometime). He was under contract to Paramount, and was the first choice for every romantic comedy and melodrama, and when his contract was up he refused to re-sign, and he remained independent for the rest of his career, and he made excellent choices in what movies he made. He remained a major star throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and he was equally successful in comedy as he was in dramas and thrillers. His best movies span his entire career. Just a few of them are
Penny Serenade
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), None But The Lonely Heart (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film),
Bringing Up Baby
, Only Angels Have Wings, Mr. Lucky, Arsenic and Old Lace,
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
, An Affair to Remember, and of course the movies he made with Alfred Hitchcock;
Suspicion
(1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), and North by Northwest (1959). His personal life was very different from his onscreen persona (supposedly, when he was told "everybody would like to be Cary Grant" he said "So would I!"). He was married five times, but he spent most of the years in-between those marriages living with Randolph Scott, and many have suggested he was bisexual. Chevy Chase once publicly joked that Grant was gay, and Grant sued him over it. In the early 1960s he took LSD over 100 times, and in 1965 he married the much younger
Dyan Cannon
, and they had a daughter together, the only child either ever had. He retired in 1966, and passed away in 1986 at the age of 82. I don't know that there was ever a more appealing romantic leading man than Cary Grant and he had great romantic chemistry with every one of his leading ladies. He was the inspiration for the line, "Women want to be with him, men want to BE him".
More Info on Victor McLaglen
:
Victor McLaglen was an English actor (of Irish descent) from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was a giant man who was a boxer who turned to acting. Some of his movies include:
The Quiet Man
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
The Informer
(winner of the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and countless
John Ford
movies, including many with John Wayne! Note that although McLaglen was the quintessential Irish actor in movies of the 1920s on, he was in fact NOT Irish, and was born in England! He passed away in 1959 at the age of 72.
More Info on Douglas Fairbanks Jr:
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was a major leading actor from the 1910s to the 1980s. He was the son of famous silent star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Some of his movies include: The Prisoner of Zenda,
Gunga Din
, Parachute Jumper, Little Caesar, and A Woman of Affairs. He was married to Joan Crawford from 1929 to 1934, and went on to marry two more times. He passed away in 2000 at the age of 90.
More Info on Sam Jaffe
:
Sam Jaffe was a Jewish actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was "blacklisted" in Hollywood in the early 1950s after making The Day the Earth Stood Still in 1951, and his career did not fully recover until he was hired by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 version of Ben-Hur. Some of his other movies include: Lost Horizon,
The Asphalt Jungle
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ben-Hur,
Gunga Din
, The Scarlet Empress, and TV's "
Ben Casey
" (as Dr. Zorba). He passed away in 1984 at the age of 93.
More Info on Eduardo Ciannelli
:
Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969), was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli.
His Hollywood career consists of close to 150 film and television appearances. Notable among these are
Marked Woman
(1937) with Bette Davis,
Strange Cargo
(1940) with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, and perhaps his most famous role, as the fanatical Thuggee guru in
Gunga Din
(1939) with Cary Grant. In the 1940 serial Mysterious Doctor Satan, he played the eponymous villain, an evil scientist with an army of robots.
In the 1950s and throughout the 1960s, he divided his time among Italian films such as The City Stands Trial, directed by Luigi Zampa,[2] Attila (1954) with Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren, Helen of Troy (1956), appearances in American TV shows such as Climax Mystery Theater, The Time Tunnel, Perry Mason,
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
, Johnny Staccato, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Dr. Kildare and a few films including
Houseboat
(1958), The Visit (1964), The Chase (1966) with Marlon Brando, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani.
More Info on Joan Fontaine:
Joan Fontaine was an actress from the 1930s to the 1990s. One would have thought that Joan Fontaine, being the talented and beautiful sister of established star
Olivia De Havilland
, would have quickly achieved fame herself. However, she came to Hollywood in 1934, and only appeared in one movie in 1935. It was two years later, after she changed her name to Joan Fontaine, that she started appearing in lots of movies, but it was not until 1940's "
Rebecca
" (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) and 1941's "
Suspicion
" (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film) that she became a major star! As noted above, she was the sister of Olivia De Havilland, and they had a decades-long feud (sadly, there is no longer any hope of a reconciliation, because Ms. Fontaine passed away in 2013 at the age of 96).
More Info on George Stevens
:
George Stevens was a director and producer from the 1920s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include:
Giant
(winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film),
Gunga Din
, Vivacious Lady, and Place In The Sun (winner of the Best Director Academy Award for this film). He passed away in 1975 at the age of 70.
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.
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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