May McAvoy cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: McAvoy, May
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress May McAvoy with a short biography on the back. American actress May McAvoy was born on 8 September 1899 in New York. In 1920, McAvoy gave up her training as a school teacher to become an actress with the Pathé Company. Her first acting job was a commercial for Domino sugar. Soon after, she appeared in the film <i>The Devil’s Garden</i> (1920). In 1921, McAvoy got the lead role in the film <i>Sentimental Tommy</i> which earned her a contract with Paramount Pictures. The most famous of her movies include <i>Ben Hur</i> (1925) and <i>The Jazz Singer</i> (1927). She died on 26 April 1984 at the age of 84. Her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame immortalizes her contributions to the film industry.</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: 2014.0117.03
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: collectible card
label: Object Name
content: card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 7/16 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.65125 cm