Little Women 1949 Movie Glass Slide, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor

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Little Women, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor
Little Women, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor
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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 1949, family feature, "Little Women".
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,
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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:
The March sisters - Jo (June Allyson), Beth (Margaret O'Brien), Amy (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), and Meg (Janet Leigh) - struggle to make ends meet in their New England household while their father is away fighting in the Civil War. Despite harsh times, they cling to optimism, often with neighbor Laurie (Peter Lawford) as a companion. As they mature, they face burgeoning ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, all the while maintaining their unbreakable bond.
Trivia
:
All of the sisters (June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, and Janet Leigh) reportedly got along terrifically, like a real sorority. Allyson, who was several years older than most of her co-stars, managed to relate to the younger women and form strong bonds with them.
The basket that Margaret O'Brien carries around in this movie is the same basket that her Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) co-star Judy Garland carried in The Wizard of Oz (1939). The Wizard of Oz (1939) and this movie were produced by Mervyn LeRoy.
June Allyson was nearly 31 when she played 15-year-old Jo March, although her character is meant to be close to 25 by the time of the events that close this movie.
Mary Astor, who played the mother, Marmee, was only eleven years older than June Allyson. However, being born in 1906, she was clearly old enough to play the mother of a fifteen-year-old character.
One of the three movies that June Allyson considered her personal favorites of her movies.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1949
Genre:
Drama, Family, Romance
Director(s):
Mervyn LeRoy
Producer(s):
Mervyn LeRoy
Cast
:
June Allyson as Josephine "Jo" March
Peter Lawford as Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
Margaret O'Brien as Elizabeth "Beth" March
Elizabeth Taylor as Amy March
Janet Leigh as Margaret "Meg" March
Rossano Brazzi as Professor Friedrich Bhaer
Mary Astor as Margaret "Marmee" March
Lucille Watson as Aunt Josephine March
Sir C. Aubrey Smith as James Laurence
Elizabeth Patterson as Hannah Mullet
Leon Ames as Robert March
Harry Davenport as Dr. Barnes
Richard Stapley as John Brooke
Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Kirke
Ellen Corby as Sophie
Uncredited
Harlan Briggs as Old Crony at Grace's store
Frank Darien as Crony at Grace's store
Olin Howland as Mr. Davis, Amy's teacher
Isabel Randolph as Mrs. Gardiner, snobbish woman at party
Will Wright as Mr. Grace, the store Proprietor
More Info on June Allyson
:
June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman) was a very likable actress from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was cast over and over as the "good wife", and she tried to break out of that mold playing an incredibly unsympathetic wife in "The Shrike", but the movie failed, and she returned to her good wife roles! Some of her movies include:
The Glenn Miller Story,
The Three Musketeers,
Little Women
and Executive Suite. She was the daughter of an alcoholic and she was married for a long time to actor
Dick Powell
, who also was an alcoholic, and sadly, after his death, she became an alcoholic, which caused a custody battle for her children with her own mother. Later in life, she became well remembered for her TV commercials for Depends! She passed away in 2006 at the age of 88.
More Info on Peter Lawson
:
Peter Lawford was an English actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" (
Frank Sinatra
, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop) and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he was a well-known celebrity and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films. In later years, he was noted more for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting; it was said that he was "famous for being famous".
Some of his movies included: Sahara, Son of Lassie,
Easter Parade
, Ocean's 11, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Advise and Consent,
Little Women
, Royal Wedding and The Longest Day. Note that when Lawford was first signed by MGM, his mother approached Louis B. Mayer to pay her a salary as her son's personal assistant. Mayer declined and she then claimed that her son was a homosexual and needed to be "supervised". This put a damper on the relationship between her and her son! Lawford passed away in 1984 at the age of 61.
More Info on Margaret O'Brien
:
Margaret O'Brien is a former major child star in the 1940s who successfully transitioned to adult roles! Some of her movies include:
Meet Me in St. Louis
, Jane Eyre, Little Women, Canterville Ghost, and
The Secret Garden
. She was discovered when her picture appeared on the cover of a national magazine, and she won a nationwide search to find the child star capable of delivering the dramatic performance necessary for "Journey for Margaret", which was her first real role, after a tiny uncredited role in "
Babes on Broadway
". As of 2020, she is still alive and working at the age of 83!
More Info on Elizabeth Taylor
:
Elizabeth Taylor was one of the most legendary actresses of all time! Born in London to socially prominent American parents, Taylor moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1939. She started as a child actress in the 1940s, became a teen actress in the 1950s, and became a major star from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Some of her movies include: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), North and South,
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
(nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), A Place in the Sun,
Giant
, Jane Eyre,
Father of the Bride
, National Velvet, Suddenly, Last Summer (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Raintree County (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), Butterfield 8 (winner of the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), and the "
Lassie
" films. Some consider her the most beautiful brunette actress of all time!
In August 1985, she and Dr. Michael Gottlieb founded the National AIDS Research Foundation after her friend and former co-star
Rock Hudson
announced that he was dying of the disease. In 2000, she was appointed a Dame Commander in the chivalric Order of the British Empire in the millennium New Year Honours List by
Queen Elizabeth II
. She passed away in 2011 at the age of 79.
More Info on Janet Leigh
:
Janet Leigh was an actress from the 1940s to the 2000s. She was married to
Tony Curtis
and is the mother of
Jamie Lee Curtis
. She is best remembered for her shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film). Some of her other movies include:
Little Women
, Holiday Affair, Touch of Evil, The Manchurian Candidate, Bye Bye Birdie, and The Fog. She passed away in 2004 at the age of 77.
More Info on Rossano Brazzi
:
Rossano Brazzi was an Italian singer and actor from the 1930s to the 1990s. Most Americans know him solely as the star of the movie version of "
South Pacific
" in 1958, but he appeared in Italian movies for ten years beginning in 1938, and then made American movies from 1948, and was a respected stage director in Italy as well! Some of his other movies include:
Little Women
, The Italian Job, The Final Conflict, The Barefoot Contessa, and
Summertime
. He passed away in 1994 at the age of 78.
More Info on Mary Astor
:
Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois in 1906, and was far from an overnight success. Two years later, she had a major success appearing in "Beau Brummel" opposite
John Barrymore
in 1924 (at Barrymore's request), and the 18 year old Mary had an affair with the 42 year old Barrymore. Her parents broke off the affair with Barrymore and virtually kept her a prisoner in the lavish home they bought with her ,500 a week earnings (she received only a weekly allowance!). She had some success in her movies over the following years, but the advent of sound looked like it might be a career ender for her (and it was for so many actors at that time), because she failed a "sound test" and was released from her contract! But she took voice and singing lessons, and after appearing in a successful stage play, she was re-hired. She had married a director in 1929, but he was killed in a plane crash in 1930, which gave her a nervous breakdown. She was treated by a doctor, whom she married the following year! In 1932 she got a lead role (opposite Clark Gable and Jean Harlow) in
Red Dust
. She had a major success in
The Kennel Murder Case
, opposite William Powell. She had an affair with playwright George S. Kaufman, and other celebrities. In 1935, her doctor husband divorced her, and due to her behavior, asked for custody of their young daughter. He had stolen her diary which documented her affair with Kaufman. While the custody hearing was going on she was filming Dodsworth (as Edith Cortright), and rather than hurt her career, the scandal seemed to help it! In 1937 she moved back to New York, where she acted on the stage and appeared on radio. In 1941, she won the Best Supporting Actress award for "The Great Lie" (Bette Davis helped her get the part, and they remained good friends for life), and had her most memorable role that same year in "
The Maltese Falcon
" as Brigid O'Shaughnessy. She signed a contract with MGM, which gave her some needed financial security, but which sadly did not give her many movies worthy of her great talent. She continued acting until 1964 (one of her best later roles was in Return to Peyton Place in 1961), making a total of 123 movies, and she lived for another 21 years (16 of those at the Motion Picture Country Home) until she passed away in 1987 at the age of 81. Mary Astor was a charming. beautiful and very talented actress who never was in the first rank of leading ladies, likely mostly because of her turbulent private life, but she did leave behind many memorable performances, although most of the best of them were as a secondary performer, and not as the lead.
More Info on Lucille Watson
:
Lucile Watson was a Canadian-born actress from the 1910s to the 1950s. Some of her movies include: The Garden of Allah, The Young in Heart, Sweethearts, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Tomorrow Is Forever, Song of the South, and
Little Women
. She passed away in 1962 at the age of 83.
More Info on C. Aubrey Smith
:
C. Aubrey Smith was an English actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. He was the quintessential stuffy Englishman, tall and distinguished with giant bushy eyebrows and a wonderful voice, and whenever a part called for someone like that, he was the first person Hollywood called for several decades. He was in
Little Lord Fauntleroy
, Trouble in Paradise, Love Me Tonight, and scores of other movies. He passed away in 1948 at the age of 85.
More Info on Harry Davenport
:
Harry Davenport was an actor from the 1910s to the 1950s. He is known as a co-founder of the Actors Equity Association which caused a strike by actors resulting in better working conditions (a union). Some of his movies include: The Ox-Bow Incident,
Gone with the Wind
, and You Can't Take It with You. He passed away in 1949 at the age of 83.
More Info on Mervyn LeRoy
:
Mervyn LeRoy was a legendary director and producer from the 1920s to the 1960s. Some of his films include:
The Wizard of Oz
, Tonight or Never, Gold Diggers of 1933, Random Harvest (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), and
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
. LeRoy passed away in 1987 at the age of 86.
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Slide Condition: EX+, 1 side tape is loose. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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