Mystery Sea Raider, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon
Mystery Sea Raider, 1940, Movie Glass Slide, Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon
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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, WWII mystery feature, “Mystery Sea Raider”.
I am Auctioning off my entire collection of
Movie Glass Slides
this week (over 100). 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
,
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1940 –
Gone With The Wind
, Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Olivia de Havilland
,
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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
,
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1940 –
The Green Hornet Strikes Again
, Warren Hull, Keye Luke
,
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1940 –
The Mark of Zorro
, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell
,
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1940 –
The Return of Frank James
, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper
1940 –
Virginia City
, Errol Flynn, Mariam Hopkins,
Humphrey Bogart,
1941 –
High Sierra
, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino
,
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1941 –
Strawberry Blonde
, James Cagney,
Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
1941 –
Suspicion
– Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine (directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
,
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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
,
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1949 –
The Fighting Kentuckian
,
John Wayne, Oliver Hardy, Vera Ralston
1950 –
Fancy Pants
, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot
1950 –
Father of the Bride
, Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor
1950 –
The Asphalt Jungle
, Marilyn Monroe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern
1950 –
Sunset Boulevard
, William Holden, Gloria Swanson
,
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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:
At the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria, a British vessel en route to New York from London, where she has been dancing. The ship is sunk in mid-voyage by an unidentified submarine, and Cutler aids in rescuing June. As they arrive safely in Manhattan, June asks Cutler to contact her fiancé, Jimmy Madden, about the use of his stranded freighter, “Apache”, in Cutler’s “import business.” By this action, she has unwittingly aided Cutler, who is an undercover Nazi naval officer, with acquiring a “mother ship” for German submarines in the Atlantic. Cutler charters the “Apache” and also kidnaps June who, he fears, might realize he was responsible for the sinking of the “Alleria.” When the ship is at sea, a submarine comes along-side, and the crew climbs aboard to be met by Cutler and his aides in full uniform. Madden is informed that Cutler is now the ship’s captain, and then takes the ship on missions of commerce raiding in the Carribbean, with Madden and his crew imprisoned in the ship’s hold. June is allowed freedom of the ship and Madden believes she is an accomplice of Cutler’s. She regains his favor and trust when she conceives the idea of cutting carbide flares from the life preservers for floating S.O.S. messages.
Trivia
:
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Date:
1940
Genre:
Drama, WWII Thriller, Spy, Mystery
Director(s):
Edward Dmytryk
Producer(s):
Eugene J. Zukor
Cast
:
Carole Landis as June McCarthy
Henry Wilcoxon as Captain Jimmy Madden
Onslow Stevens as Carl Cutler
Kathleen Howard as Maggie Clancy
Wally Rairden as Blake, 3rd Mate (as Wallace Rairdon)
Sven Hugo Borg as Sven
Henry Victor as Cmdr. Bulow
Roland Varno as Lt. Schmidt
Louis Adlon as Lerner
Willy Kaufman as Lt. Felder
Monte Blue as Captain Norberg
Matthew Boulton as Captain Howard
Gohr Van Vleck as Captain Van Wyck
Jean Del Val as Captain Benoit
Kay Linaker as Flossie La Mare
Reed Howes as Hughes, Carl’s Chauffeur
Phil Warren as Sparks, Radio Operator (as Philip Wareen)
More Info on Carole Landis:
Carole Landis was born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste in Wisconsin in 1919 to a Norwegian father and a Polish mother. She was the youngest of five children, but two of her brothers died when they were toddlers, one burned by scalding water and one accidentally shot, and her father abandoned his family when she was a teen. At 15 she got married, but it was annulled after a month, although she re-married the same man a few months later. She moved to Los Angeles and received her first movie role in 1937, and although she was strikingly beautiful and could act well, she spent three years playing bit parts in 27 movies. In 1940 she got her big break as the lead in Hal Roach’s
One Million B.C.
, playing a cavegirl opposite Victor Mature. Hal Roach called her “
The Ping Girl
“. She also divorced her husband and re-married, but that marriage only lasted 5 months. Roach sold her contract to 20th Century Fox, where she played supporting roles in major pictures and the lead in some minor pictures. Among the movies she made at this time were
I Wake Up Screaming
, Moon Over Miami, and Turnabout. She went on USO tours to England and North Africa during
WWII
, and she patriotically spent more time visiting troops in than any other Hollywood star. But she caught amoebic dysentery, malaria, and pneumonia while in Africa, and she never fully recovered. As the war ended, her contract at Fox was dropped, and she was divorced from her soldier husband she had married during the war. She married a man named Horace Schmidlapp (her fourth marriage), and she had great trouble getting film roles. After she left her fourth husband, she had an affair with married actor Rex Harrison, and when that ended badly, Landis committed suicide in 1948 by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was just 29! She had been friends during the war with future author Jacqueline Susann, and it is thought that the character Jennifer North in Susann’s “Valley of the Dolls” was based on Landis.
More Info on Henry Wilcoxon:
Henry Wilcoxon was an actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was given the role of Marc Antony in Cecil B. DeMille’s
Cleopatra
, and it was the beginning of a long relationship with DeMille (as an actor and associate producer). Some of his other movies include:
The Ten Commandments
, Mrs. Miniver, and
The Greatest Show on Earth
. He passed away in 1984 at the age of 78.
More Info on Onslow Stevens
:
Onslow Stevens was an actor from the 1930s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Under Two Flags, The Monster and The Girl,
Angel on My Shoulder
, Sirocco, and The Ten Commandments. He passed away in 1977 at the age of 74.
More Info on Kathleen Howard
:
Kathleen Howard was a Canadian actress from the 1930s to the 1940s. Some of her movies include: It’s a Gift,
Ball of Fire
, and Death Takes a Holiday. She passed away in 1956 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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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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