Janet Gaynor cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Gaynor, Janet
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Janet Gaynor with a short biography on the back. American actress and painter Janet Gaynor was born on 6 October 1906 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Her first major part was the lead role in the film <i>The Johnstown Flood</i> (1926). In 1929, Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: <i>Seventh Heaven</i> (1927), <i>Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans</i> (1927) and <i>Street Angel</i> (1928). A decade later, she received an Academy Award nomination for her lead role in the original <i>A Star is Born</i> film from 1937. Her success made her one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era. Gaynor retired from film at age 33 and remained involved in the art community, thriving as an oil painter. She made her Broadway debut as Maude in <i>Harold and Maude </i> in 1980 and performed a few more times on television and on stage before her death in 1984, a result of a car accident she was in with her husband and two friends in 1982. She is remembered for her contributions to the film industry with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This card belongs to a set titled "Cinema Stars: A Series of 30 Hand Coloured Pictures" which features popular film actresses from the 1930s. Collectible cards like this were very popular during the 1920s and 1930s, and they were distributed by various brands in both tobacco and food products. In the 1920s, Cavanders Ltd. also released the following sets of cards: "Beauty Spots of Great Britain," "Foreign Birds," and "River Valleys."</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Movie
label: Subject
content: Actors
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.0117.11
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collectible card
label: Object Name
content: card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.65125 cm