Barbara Kent cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Kent, Barbara
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Barbara Kent with a short biography on the back. Canadian-American actress Barbara Kent was born Barbara Cloutman on 16 December 1907 in Alberta, Canada. In 1913, she moved with her family to California. In 1925, Kent won the Miss Hollywood beauty contest, and at age 18 she was signed by Universal with no previous acting experience. In 1926, Kent starred opposite Greta Garbo in the film <i>Flesh and the Devil</i>. The following year, she attracted attention for swimming "nude" in a flesh-colored bathing suit in the film <i>No Man's Law</i> (1927). With the development of "talkies," Kent became popular in comedic roles for films such as <i>Welcome Danger</i> (1929) and <i>Feet First</i> (1930) opposite Harold Lloyd. However, her most remembered role is in the critically acclaimed 1933 film <i>Oliver Twist</i>. After her husband Harry Eddington died in 1949, Kent married Jack Monroe and lived in Idaho, then California until her death in 2011 at the age of 103.</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: 2014.0117.30
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.30
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collectible card
label: Object Name
content: card
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content: paper (overall material)
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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