Caught, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan

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Caught, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
Caught, 1949, Movie Glass Slide, James Mason, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan
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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, film-noir feature, "Caught".
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:
Caught, the 1949 Max Ophuls romantic love triangle melodrama ("The Story of a Desperate Woman!"; "The Story of a Desperate Girl."; "A new MGM hit!"; "From the novel 'Wild Calendar' by Libbie Black"; a loose fictionalized version of Howard Hughes' life at the time; a wealthy but crazy man marries a beautiful model and then becomes obsessed with her, keeping her away from the rest of the world; she manages to take a job with a doctor, and she falls in love with him, but her husband gets her back for a while) starring James Mason ("In his first American motion picture"), Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Ryan, Curt Bois, Art Smith, Natalie Schafer, and Frank Ferguson. Note that Mason was originally slated for the villain's role, but he had been a bad guy in so many of his British films, he successfully lobbied to be the protagonist in his first U.S. film.
Trivia
:
The 1992 restoration of the film, done at UCLA Film and Television Archives, was financed by Martin Scorsese, who would direct a biopic of Howard Hughes - upon whose life the film is loosely based - The Aviator (2004) a decade later.
For his American film debut, Mason was initially cast in the hard-hearted role enacted by Robert Ryan. Mason wanted to change the villainous image he'd established in British films and and asked play the other male role.
The character Smith Ohlrig is based on Howard Hughes.
After reading the enthusiastic preview cards for "Caught," Mason said, "The release date was three months ahead. For everyone concerned...these were three months of euphoria...things returned to normal when the film opened in New York. No one came to see it."
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1949
Genre:
Film-Noir, Romance, Drama
Director(s):
Max Ophuls
Producer(s):
Wolfgang Reinhardt
Cast
:
James Mason as Dr. Larry Quinada
Barbara Bel Geddes as Leonora Eames
Robert Ryan as Smith Ohlrig
Frank Ferguson as Dr. Hoffman
Curt Bois as Franzi Kartos
Natalie Schafer as Dorothy Dale
Art Smith as Psychiatrist
Jimmy Hawkins as Kevin (uncredited)
More Info on James Mason
:
James Mason was born in Yorkshire, England in 1909. He intended to become an architect, but while studying at Cambridge he did some theater, and after graduation he joined the Old Vic theatre. He performed on the stage, and was in many minor English movies in 1936 to 1939 (there was a law requiring a percentage of movies shown in English to be made there, so many "quota quickies" were filmed). He was a conscientious objector in WWII. During the early 1940s, he continued to make many movies, and the quality of his parts steadily increased. It was his performance in The Seventh Veil, as a handicapped musician involved in a bizarre romantic love triangle that made him a major star, and in 1947 he starred in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out, as an IRA member on the run from the law, and that made him an international star. He went to Hollywood, where he co-starred in Caught, as a doctor in another bizarre romantic love triangle. Despite his being 40, he was able to continue to play romantic leads, both because he had aged well and because of his beautiful speaking voice, and he starred in movies like Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and A Star Is Born (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), but he also took memorable supporting roles, including as Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. In the late 1950s, it appeared his career might be winding down, and he began doing TV as well as supporting roles in movies. But in 1959 he was a most memorable villain in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and that same year he starred as Professor Lindenbrook in Journey to the Center of the Earth! In 1962 he had one of the very best roles of his career, starring as Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita. He also was memorable in 1966 as the aging lothario pursuing "plain" young Lynn Redgrave in Georgy Girl (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film). He continued acting through the 1970s and mid 1980s, playing Mr. Jordan in Heaven Can Wait and Dr. Watson in Murder by Decree. He was a delightful slimy lawyer in The Verdict (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film) in 1982. He passed away from a heart attack in 1984 at the age of 75. James Mason was a superlative character actor who played many quirky leading roles over his long illustrious career. He took almost every role that was offered to him (he appeared in 150 movies!), and while they were not all "winners", I highly recommend all of the movies mentioned above!
More Info on Barbara Bel Geddes:
Barbara Bel Geddes was an actress from the 1940s to the 1990s. She starred in "The Long Night" on Broadway, and at the age of 24, she was signed to recreate that role by RKO, who called her "The Number One Film Find of the Year". Some of her movies include: Vertigo, By Love Possessed, 5 Branded Women, and I Remember Mama (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role as Katrin in this film). She was also "Miss Ellie" on TV's "Dallas". She passed away in 2005 at the age of 82.
More Info on Robert Ryan
:
Robert Ryan was an actor from the 1940s to the 1970s, sometimes in lead roles, and sometimes in important secondary roles. Some of his movies include: About Mrs. Leslie, The Wild Bunch, Crossfire (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), The Set-Up, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Professionals, and The Dirty Dozen. He passed away in 1973 at the age of 73.
More Info on Curt Bois
:
Curtis Bois was a German actor from the 1910s to the 1980s. Some of his movies include: Romance in the Dark, Blue, White and Perfect, The Woman from Tangier, and Himlen over Berlin. Bois passed away in 1991 at the age of 90.
More Info on Art Smith
:
Art Smith was a character actor from the 1940s to the 1960s. Some of his movies include: Edge of Darkness, Brute Force, In a Lonely Place and The Hustler. Smith passed away in 1973 at the age of 73.
More Info on Natalie Schafer
:
Natalie Schafer was an actress from the 1930s to the 1970s. She is best known as "Mrs. Howell" in TV's "Gilligan's Island". Some of her movies include: Molly and Me, Payment on Demand, and Back Street. She passed away in 1991 at the age of 90.
More Info on Jimmy Hawkins
:
James F. Hawkins (born November 14, 1941) is an American former actor, producer and writer. He is probably best-known for his TV roles in shows like Annie Oakley, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Leave It To Beaver and The Donna Reed Show; and as well as Tommy Bailey, the youngest son of James Stewart and Donna Reed, in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life.
Although it's been thought that Hawkins retired from acting in his late twenties, his actual last appearance was in his thirties on the 1974-75 TV series, Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He is the author of five books about the film It's A Wonderful Life, served on The Jimmy Stewart Museum Advisory Board and for 20 years served on the Board of Directors of the Donna Reed Foundation for the Performing Arts. In celebration of the Frank Capra film, Hawkins and other cast members appear annually at the It's A Wonderful Life Festival in Seneca Falls, New York, the town thought to be the inspiration for the movie's setting of Bedford Falls.
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Slide Condition: EX-NM. Please see the scans for actual condition.
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This glass slide will be wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped securely inside a sturdy box.
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