Marian Nixon cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Nixon, Marian
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Marian Nixon with a short biography on the back. American actress Marian Nixon was born Marian Nissinen on 20 October 1904 in Superior, Wisconsin. Nixon began her career as a professional dancer before eventually turning to acting. Her film career began in 1923 with <i>Cupid’s Fireman</i>. Throughout the 1920s, she appeared in many Westerns, including <i>The Saddle Hawk</i> (1924) and <i>Riders of the Purple Sage</i> (1925). Nixon also starred in films opposite actor Al Jolson, including <i>Say It With Songs</i> (1929) and <i>General Crack</i> (1930). Nixon retired from Hollywood in 1936 after filming her last motion pictures, <i>Tango</i> and <i>Captain Calamity</i>. Nixon retired in 1936 and starred in a total of 73 films over the span of her short acting career. She died on 13 February 1983 at the age of 78 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: 2014.0117.17
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card
label: Object Name
content: collectible card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
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