Nancy Carroll cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Carroll, Nancy
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Nancy Carroll with a short biography on the back. American actress of Irish heritage Nancy Carroll was born on 19 November 1903 in New York. Carroll got her start as a stage actress, appearing in various Broadway musicals as well as the Winter Garden Theatre’s performance of <i>The Passing Show of 1925</i>. In 1925, she moved to Hollywood and began a film career. In 1927, Carroll made her film debut in <i>Ladies Must Dress</i>. During the following year, she made a total of 8 films. Carroll's breakthrough role came in the 1928 film <i>Easy Come, Easy Go</i>, co-starring actor Richard Dix. In 1929, Carroll starred in <i>The Wolf of Wall Street</i>, and in 1930 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in <i>The Devil's Holiday</i>. She retired from films in 1938 and died suddenly in 1965 at the age of 61. A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honors 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: 2014.0117.06
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.06
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: 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