Mary Astor cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Astor, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Mary Astor with a short biography on the back. American actress Mary Astor was born on 3 May 1906 in Quincy, Illinois. Astor began her impressive acting career as a teenager in silent films. Her first critically-acclaimed role came in 1921 when she starred in the short film <i>The Beggar Maid</i> at age 15. In 1922, Astor did her first full-length motion pictures, <i>John Smith</i> and <i>The Man Who Played God</i>. A few years later, she co-starred in two films with actor John Barrymore, <i>Beau Brummel</i> (1924) and <i>Don Juan</i> (1926). Astor's acting success continued, and in 1941 she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film <i>The Great Lie</i>. She is best remembered, however, for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in the popular film <i>The Maltese Falcon</i> (1941). Astor continued to act until her retirement in 1964. She also authored five novels, including two autobiographies. Astor died on 25 September 1987 at the age of 81 and 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: 2014.0117.14
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.14
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)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.65125 cm