The Mark of Zorro, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, "Rare"

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The Mark of Zorro, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, "Rare"
The Mark of Zorro, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, "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, western feature, "The Mark of Zorro".
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:
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
Trivia
:
Zorro is Spanish for "fox".
The working title of this film was "The Californian".
Linda Darnell was only 16 when she made this film. Tyrone Power, playing her love interest, was 26 by comparison.
Basil Rathbone, being a well known fencer in his own right, was asked how well Tyrone Power did in their scenes in which stunt doubles were not used. Rathbone responded, "Tyrone Power could fence Errol Flynn into a cocked hat!"
Basil Rathbone (Captain Pasquale) and Eugene Pallette (Friar Felipe) are playing variations of the stock characters they played in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Sir Guy of Gisborne and Friar Tuck.
The film is based on "The Curse of Capistrano", written by Johnston McCulley, originally published in 1919 in five serialized installments in "All-Story Weekly", which introduced the masked hero Zorro; the story is set in Southern California during the early 19th century.
In addition to Don Diego Vega, Tyrone Power spent much of the 1940s playing ethnic Mediterranean characters--Spaniards in Blood and Sand (1941) and Captain from Castile (1947) and an Italian in Prince of Foxes (1949), but he was of Irish, not Latin, descent.
In the DC Comics continuity it is established that The Mark of Zorro was the film that the eight-year-old Bruce Wayne had seen with his parents, Thomas and Martha, at a movie theater, only moments before they were killed in front of his eyes by an armed thug (later retconned to be Joe Chill). Zorro is often portrayed as Bruce's childhood hero and an influence on his Batman persona.
The TV version of Zorro (also known as Disney's Zorro) is an American Spanish action-adventure western series produced by Walt Disney Productions and starring Guy Williams in 1957-1959.
There were Zorro trading cards, made by Topps in 1958.
Studio:
20th Century Fox
Date:
1940
Genre:
Spanish, History, Action, Adventure, Romance
Director(s):
Rouben Mamoulian
Producer(s):
Darryl F. Zanuck
Cast
:
Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega/Zorro
Linda Darnell as Lolita Quintero
Basil Rathbone as Captain Esteban Pasquale
Gale Sondergaard as Inez Quintero
Eugene Pallette as Friar Felipe
J. Edward Bromberg as Don Luis Quintero
Montagu Love as Don Alejandro Vega
Janet Beecher as Senora Isabella Vega
George Regas as Sergeant Gonzales
Chris-Pin Martin as Turnkey
Robert Lowery as Rodrigo
Belle Mitchell as Maria
John Bleifer as Pedro
Frank Puglia as Proprietor
Eugene Borden as Officer of the Day
Pedro de Cordoba as Don Miguel
Guy D'Ennery as Don Jose
Stanley Andrews as Commanding Officer (uncredited)
Fortunio Bonanova as Sentry (uncredited)
Charles Stevens as José (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 Basil Rathbone
:
Basil Rathbone was a popular English stage and screen actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He is best remembered for playing
Sherlock Holmes
in the popular series beginning in 1939. Some of his other movies include:
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, A Tale of Two Cities, The Court Jester (in which he played a comic version of the role he had played many years earlier in Robin Hood), Captain Blood, Son of Frankenstein (in the title role),
The Mark of Zorro
, The Dawn Patrol, Romeo & Juliet (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) and
If I Were King
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) to name a few! He passed away in 1967 at the age of 75.
More Info on Gale Sondergaard
:
Gale Sondergaard was an actress from the 1930s to the 1980s. Some of her movies include: Centennial,
The Time of Their Lives
, Anthony Adverse (winner of the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and The Letter. She might have had one of the most memorable roles of all time! She was cast as the "Wicked Witch of the West" in 1939's "
Wizard of Oz
", but she was going to be a "beautiful" witch (similar to Glinda, the Good Witch), but at the last minute, MGM decided to make her "ugly", and she refused, and she dropped out days before filming began, and Margaret Hamilton was cast instead. She passed away in 1985 at the age of 86.
More Info on Eugene Pallette
:
Eugene Pallette was an actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
, The Adventures of Robin Hood (as Friar Tuck), The Birth of a Nation, The Mark of Zorro, My Man Godfrey, and
The Lady Eve
. He passed away in 1954 at the age of 65.
More Info on Montagu Love:
Montagu Love was an English actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Some of his movies include: A Damsel in Distress,
The Adventures of Robin Hood
, The Mark of Zorro and
The Sea Hawk
. He died in 1943 at the age of 63.
More Info on Robert Lowery
:
Robert Lowery was an actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include: Waco,
Batman and Robin
(in the title role as Batman/Bruce Wayne), and
Drums Along the Mohawk
. He passed away in 1971 at the age of 58.
More Info on Rouben Mamoulian
:
Rouben Mamoulian was a Russian director from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Queen Christina, Becky Sharp,
Golden Boy
, The Mark of Zorro, and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(the 1931 version). His masterpiece was Love Me Tonight, a musical with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, which was like the best Ernst Lubitsch movies, but with great music added! He passed away in 1987 at the age of 90.
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.
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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