The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe

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The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe
The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, Movie Glass Slide, Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe
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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 1950, film-noir feature, "The Asphalt Jungle".
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:
When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich who offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safe cracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi, and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
Trivia
:
The poster showing Marilyn Monroe in a purple dress was created much later, after she became a household name. Monroe was basically unknown when the film was made in 1950 and only has a very small role. She certainly wouldn't have been given top billing at the time. In fact, she wasn't named on the original posters at all.
Marilyn Monroe regarded this as one of her best performances, particularly her final scene with Louis Calhern.
Film debut of actor Strother Martin (uncredited, in the police line-up).
In his autobiography, John Huston noted that he consulted with author W.R. Burnett several times during the development of the script, and that Burnett gave his approval of the final screenplay.
Features Sam Jaffe's only Oscar nominated performance.
This film has been preserved in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
Studio:
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
Date:
1950
Genre:
Film-Noir,  Crime Thriller, Drama
Director(s):
John Huston
Producer(s):
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Cast
:
Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley
Louis Calhern as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Jean Hagen as "Doll" Conovan
James Whitmore as Gus Minissi
Sam Jaffe as "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider
John McIntire as Police Commissioner Hardy
Marc Lawrence as Cobby
Barry Kelley as Lt. Ditrich
Anthony Caruso as Louis Ciavelli
Teresa Celli as Maria Ciavelli
Marilyn Monroe
as Angela Phinlay
William "Wee Willie" Davis as Timmons
Dorothy Tree as May Emmerich
Brad Dexter as Bob Brannom
John Maxwell as Dr. Swanson
Uncredited
:
Alex Gerry as Maxwell
Tom Browne Henry as James X. Connery
James Seay as Janocek
Don Haggerty as Andrews
Henry Rowland as Franz Schurz, German taxi driver
Strother Martin as 22-year-old in police lineup
Helene Stanley as Jeannie
More Info on Sterling Hayden
:
Sterling Hayden was an actor from the 1940s to the 1980s. Paramount had big plans for Hayden but he impulsively joined the OSS (the precursor to the CIA) after the 1941 film Bahama Passage, leaving his beautiful wife Madeleine Carroll and fighting the Germans in all sorts of hair raising adventures in Yugoslavia. Some of his movies include: The Killing,
The Asphalt Jungle
, The Godfather, Dr. Strangelove (as Jack D. Ripper), The Long Goodbye, Suddenly, and more! He passed away in 1986 at the age of 70.
More Info on Louis Calhern
:
Louis Calhern was an actor from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of his movies include: Notorious, Duck Soup, Magnificent Yankee (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film), and the Asphalt Jungle. He is best remembered for his middle-aged roles, most notably in
The Asphalt Jungle
, but he started as a Broadway actor before World War I, then served in the war, and after he made a few films, but mostly was a Broadway actor until 1931 and then he worked steadily in movies, but he became more successful as he aged! He passed away in 1956 at the age of 61.
More Info on Jean Hagen
:
Jean Hagen (born Jean Shirley Verhagen) was an actress from the 1940s to the 1970s. She is best remembered for her wonderful performance as Lina Lamont in
Singin' In The Rain
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film), and she was also memorable in
The Asphalt Jungle
(as Sterling Hayden's girlfriend). She was also the mother in the Danny Thomas TV sitcom "
Make Room for Daddy
". She passed away in 1977 at the age of 54.
More Info on James Whitmore
:
James Whitmore was an actor from the 1950s to the 2000s. Throughout his long career, he alternated between TV, the Broadway stage, and Hollywood. Some of his movies include: The Shawshank Redemption, Battleground (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Give 'em Hell, Harry! (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; the film version of his one-man stage show, where he portrayed President Harry Truman). He was also memorable on a 1963 episode of "The Twilight Zone", playing "Captain Benteen", the captain of a group of shipwrecked survivors of a space ship crash on a distant planet! Whitmore passed away in 2009 at the age of 87.
More Info on Sam Jaffe
:
Sam Jaffe was a Jewish actor from the 1930s to the 1980s. He was "blacklisted" in Hollywood in the early 1950s after making The Day the Earth Stood Still in 1951, and his career did not fully recover until he was hired by director William Wyler for his role in the 1959 version of Ben-Hur. Some of his other movies include: Lost Horizon,
The Asphalt Jungle
(nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
The Day the Earth Stood Still
, Ben-Hur,
Gunga Din
, The Scarlet Empress, and TV's "
Ben Casey
" (as Dr. Zorba). He passed away in 1984 at the age of 93.
More Info on Marilyn Monroe
:
Marilyn Monroe is one of the greatest larger-than-life movie stars ever of the 1950s, and surely the greatest sex symbol of all time! She appeared in several memorable movies including:
Some Like It Hot
, The Prince & the Showgirl, All About Eve,
The Asphalt Jungle
, The Misfits, The Seven Year Itch,
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
, Monkey Business, and Niagara. The last film that she worked on was Something's Got To Give in 1962. 20th Century Fox blamed Marilyn for the production being behind schedule, and fired her in June (the film was never completed). In August, she was found dead in her home from an apparent drug overdose, and her death was ruled a suicide (though there are theories that foul play was involved, and even in 2020, many people do not feel it was an "accidental" death).
More Info on John Huston
:
John Huston was a director and screenwriter from the 1920s to the 1980s and began directing in the 1930s. He is the son of famed actor Walter Huston and the father of actress Anjelica Huston. Some of his films include:
Asphalt Jungle
(nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film),
The Maltese Falcon
, The African Queen,
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(winner of the Best Director Academy Award AND Best Screenplay Academy Award for this film), The Man Who Would be King, and Moulin Rouge (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film). He also acted in several movies including: Cardinal (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film),
Chinatown
, Casino Royale, and The Misfits. He passed away in 1987 at the age of 81.
Please, let me know if you have any questions about this item or any of the items I am selling.
Slide Condition: EX+ (loose tape on the right edge). 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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