Violence, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Michael O'Shea, Nancy Coleman, "Film Noir"

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Violence, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Michael O'Shea, Nancy Coleman, "Film Noir"
Violence, 1947, Movie Glass Slide, Michael O'Shea, Nancy Coleman, "Film Noir"
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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 1947, crime drama/ "Film Noir" feature, "Violence".
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:
Undercover magazine reporter Ann Mason is able to infiltrate a neo-facist organization that recruits disgruntled war veterans with a paranoiac populist message that views both labor and management as enemies. She becomes secretary to the organization's leader, True Dawson, a smooth-talking con artist who uses the member's dues and the organisation's manpower for his own nefarious ends. Fred Stalk, one of Dawson's enforcers, suspects her motives but lack of evidence and his attraction to her keeps him from acting against her. While en route to break her exposé, Ann's taxi is pursued by government agent Steve Fuller, and the resultant crash leaves her with a concussion and loss of memory. Fuller uses the opportunity to convince her he's her fiancé and gains access to the racketeers.
Trivia:
When Dawson tries to escape, Fred shoots Dawson in the front. But on the next cut when they show Dawson keeling over from the shot, there is no bullet entry anywhere.
Studio:
Monogram Pictures
Date:
1947
Genre:
Gangster, Crime, Drama, Thriller, "Film Noir"
Director(s):
Jack Bernhard
Producer(s):
Jack Bernhard, Bernard Brandt
Cast
:
Nancy Coleman as Ann Dwire, alias Ann Mason
Michael O'Shea as Steve Fuller
Sheldon Leonard as Fred Stalk
Peter Whitney as Joker
Emory Parnell as True Dawson
Pierre Watkin as Ralph Borden
Frank Reicher as Pop, apartment concierge
Cay Forrester as Sally Donahue
John Hamilton as Doctor in Chicago
Richard Irving as Protest Rally Orator
Carole Donne as Beth Taffel, Borden's secretary
Jimmy Clark as Joe Donahue
William Gould as Mr. X
More Info on Michael O'Shea:
Michael O'Shea was an actor from the 1940s to the 1950s. He had a fascinating life! He was born in 1906 as one of six sons of an Irish cop, and all five of his brothers became policemen, but he dropped out of school at the age of 12 and went into vaudeville, touring with heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson's traveling show. He did anything to make money, including being an emcee and playing with his band "Michael O'Shea and His Stationary Gypsies". He finally got some legitimate stage roles in the 1930s, and he finally got a movie role in 1943 in "Lady of Burlesque", opposite Barbara Stanwyck. With a shortage of leading men during World War II, he got some good leading roles during the war years, and he sang in some of them. In 1943, he played the lead role in "Jack London", where he worked with Virginia Mayo, and they married four years later. He performed on stage with her and his film career fizzled at the end of the 1940s, but he got a lead in a TV show in 1954, "It's a Great Life". In the 1960s, he retired from show business and got a job working "plainclothes" for the CIA, and he passed away from a heart attack in 1973, still married to Virginia Mayo!
More Info on Nancy Coleman
:
Nancy Coleman was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of her movies include: Slaves, Kings Row, Mourning Becomes Electra, Dangerously They Live, and In Our Time. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 87.
More Info on Sheldon Leonard
:
Sheldon Leonard Bershad was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of middle class Jewish parents Anna Levit and Frank Bershad. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1929.
As an actor, Leonard specialized in playing supporting characters, especially gangsters or "heavies", in films such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946; as bartender Nick), To Have and Have Not (1944), Guys and Dolls (1955), and Open Secret (1948). His trademark was his especially thick New York accent, usually delivered from the side of his mouth. (He would often pronounce th as t and would say er as oi, thus he would pronounce earth as oit.) In Decoy (1946), Leonard uses his "heavy" persona to create the hard-boiled police detective Joe Portugal.
Later in the 1950s and 1960s, he established a reputation as a producer of successful television series, including The Danny Thomas Show (aka Make Room For Daddy) (1953–64), The Andy Griffith Show (1960–68), Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. (1964–69), The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–66), and I Spy (1965–68). He also directed several TV series episodes, including four of the first eight episodes of the TV series Lassie (Season 1, 1954). Leonard also provided the voice of Linus the Lionhearted in a series of Post Crispy Critters cereal TV commercials in 1963-64, which led to a Linus cartoon series that aired on Saturday (and later, Sunday) mornings on CBS (1964–66) and ABC (1967–69). He also was briefly the star of his own television show Big Eddie (1975), where he played the owner of a large sports arena. The show lasted for only ten episodes.
Leonard's name served as an eponym for the characters Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter in the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory because the writers were fans of his work.
More Info on Emory Parnell
:
Emory Parnell was an actor from the 1930s to the 1970s. Some of his movies include: One Hour to Live, Out West with the Peppers, Let's Go Navy!, The Bounty Killer, and Hot Summer Week. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 86.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. 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.
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