Destry Rides Again, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart

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Destry Rides Again, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
Destry Rides Again, 1939, Movie Glass Slide, Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
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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, western feature, "Destry Rides Again".
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:
Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy.
Trivia
:
The role of Tom Destry was originally intended for Gary Cooper, but he wanted more money than the producers were willing to pay him. It was then offered to James Stewart, who took it.
In the original script, there was a scene in the movie showing Marlene Dietrich putting her winnings from a wild night of gambling below her dress neckline. The censors initially approved her comment. Patting her chest, she exclaims, "There's gold in them thar hills." After the preview audience roared at the line, the censors ordered it to be removed.
According to her grandson Peter Riva in an Icons Radio interview, Marlene Dietrich had no interest in doing a western when presented this script. But her friend Erich Maria Remarque convinced her that it would be perfect for her. Remarque told her that it would make her "more American". "If I am more American", Marlene asked him, "can I do more against the Nazis?" Remarque answered, "Of course". Dietrich's motive for doing this movie was to warn Americans about the Nazis.
Production was postponed until James Stewart finished his role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
This film helped restart Marlene Dietrich's career. According to a column by Ed Sullivan "Marlene Dietrich was all washed up in pictures. Nightly, you'd see her dining with the people of the movie colony, but nobody would give her a job. Nate Blumberg came over to our house one night on North Alta Drive. He had just taken over Universal and he told me that his lack of budget stymied casting of a picture in which he had great faith. I suggested that he could make a good deal with Marlene Dietrich. So Dietrich made her comeback in "Destry Rides Again Again." She's been going strong ever since."
When Marlene Dietrich arrived on the set, she offered a life size doll of Flash Gordon to James Stewart, who was a great fan of comic books.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on November 5, 1945 with James Stewart reprising his film role.
Studio:
Universal Pictures
Date:
1939
Genre:
Western, Comedy
Director(s):
George Marshall
Producer(s):
Joe Paternak
Cast
:
Marlene Dietrich as Frenchy, the saloon singer
James Stewart as Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Destry, Jr., the new deputy
Mischa Auer as Boris Callahan, the henpecked Russian
Charles Winninger as Washington "Wash" Dimsdale, the new sheriff
Brian Donlevy as Kent, the saloon owner
Allen Jenkins as "Gyp" Watson
Warren Hymer as "Bugs" Watson
Irene Hervey as Janice Tyndall
Una Merkel as Lily Belle, "Mrs. Callahan"
Billy Gilbert as Bartender "Loupgerou"
Samuel S. Hinds as Judge Slade, the mayor
Jack Carson as Jack Tyndall
Tom Fadden as Lem Claggett
Virginia Brissac as Sophie Claggett
Edmund MacDonald as Rockwell
Lillian Yarbo as Clara, Frenchy's maid
Joe King as Sheriff Keogh
Dickie Jones as Claggett's boy
Ann E. Todd as Claggett's girl
More Info on Marlene Dietrich
:
Marlene Dietrich was a very popular German actress and singer from the 1920s through the 1950s! She started in German movies in the 1920s, and then got her big break in Josef von Sternberg's "
The Blue Angel
", which was made in both a German and an English version. That led to a series of wonderful movies with von Sternberg. Some of her other movies include:
Destry Rides Again
, Shanghai Express, The Scarlet Empress, A Foreign Affair, Morocco (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film),
Blonde Venus
, Touch of Evil, Witness for the Prosecution, and
Judgment at Nuremberg
. She passed away in 1992 at the age of 90.
More Info on James Stewart
:
Jimmy Stewart was born James Maitland Stewart in Indiana, Pennsylvania in 1908, where his family had owned a hardware store for three generations, and he was expected to take over the family business someday. He wanted to go to the Naval Academy to become a pilot, but his dad made him go to Princeton instead, where he got involved in drama, and he was also head cheerleader. He joined the University Players, an intercollegiate summer stock company in 1932 (the year before, Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan had become members, and Stewart became good friends with both, which would prove important to Stewart's career). Stewart followed Fonda and Sullavan to New York, where he got some minor roles in Broadway plays, and his roommate was Fonda, who had had a three month marriage to Sullavan. Fonda and Sullavan went to Hollywood, and helped Stewart get noticed by MGM, who signed him to a contract after a screen test. He had minor roles in ten movies before he finally got a more substantial part in
After the Thin Man
in 1936. That same year old pal Sullavan insisted he be given the lead opposite her in Next Time We Love. She also got him hooked up with top agent Leland Hayward (who she later married). In 1938 he starred in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It With You, which won the Best Picture Oscar, and made him a major star. The following year was an incredible one for Stewart! He starred in Capra's
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; after Gary Cooper turned down the role), and also Destry Rides Again (opposite Marlene Dietrich). The following year was equally great, for he both starred in Ernst Lubitch's marvelous
The Shop Around the Corner
, opposite his devoted friend Margaret Sullavan, and also The Philadelphia Story, where he won the Best Actor Oscar (and his father displayed it in the front window of their hardware store!). Stewart was the first major star to enter the military in
World War II
(he did so before Pearl Harbor). He was at first rejected for being underweight (he was 6' 3" and only 138 pounds!), and he embarked on a body building program to gain weight, which he was able to do. He had realized his boyhood dream of flying by becoming a pilot in 1935, and he became an instructor pilot in the military. He begged to be allowed to fly combat missions, and he did so in 1943, becoming a major, and by the end of the war he was a colonel, having risen from private to colonel in four years. He stayed in the Reserve after the war, and eventually became a
Brigadier General
. After WWII, Stewart returned to making movies, and his very first movie on his return was Frank Capra's classic,
It's A Wonderful Life
(nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film)! He followed with many excellent starring roles, including Call Northside 777, Rope (his first time working with Alfred Hitchcock),
Winchester '73
, Broken Arrow, the classic Harvey (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), The Greatest Show on Earth, and many others. In the mid-1950s he became Hitchcock's main leading man, starring in
Rear Window,
The Man Who Knew Too Much, Vertigo. In 1959 he starred in the superb Anatomy Of A Murder (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and in 1962 had one of his best movies ever,
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
. His last few notable appearances were in the late 1970s (including in
The Shootist
, opposite John Wayne), and he passed away in 1997 at the age of 89. James Stewart was one of the only movie idols whose off-screen persona matched his onscreen persona exactly. He was married to Gloria Stewart for 45 years, until she passed away in 1994, and he remained faithful to her throughout their marriage. He really was that super-nice small town boy who "made good", both in movies and in the military, and he was a master at film selection, and he made a huge number of extraordinary movies throughout his long and illustrious career!
More Info on Charles Winninger
:
Charles Winninger was an actor from the 1910s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Destry Rides Again, Three Smart Girls,
Show Boat
, and
State Fair
. He passed away in 1969 at the age of 84.
More Info on Mischa Auer
:
Mischa Auer was a Russian actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: My Man Godfrey (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), You Can't Take It with You, Hellzapoppin', And
Then There Were None
, and Destry Rides Again. He passed away in 1967 at the age of 61.
More Info on Brian Donlevy
:
Brian Donlevy was an actor from the 1920s to the 1960s. He was born Waldo Brian Donlevy in 1901, and supposedly he managed to enlist in the army in 1916, at the age of 14! He stayed in the army through the early 1920s, becoming a pilot. In the early 1920s, he started acting, and had a few film roles. He became a top actor in the mid 1930s, primarily playing "heavies" or bad guys, and he appeared in many of Paramount's best movies of the 1940s, and also some great ones at other studios. One of his rare "non-bad guy" roles was as the star of "Two Years Before the Mast". Some of his movies include: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Destry Rides Again,
Beau Geste
, The Great McGinty, Kiss of Death, and the
Big Combo
. He passed away in 1972 at the age of 71.
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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