Bebe Daniels cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Daniels, Bebe
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Bebe Daniels with a short biography on the back. American actress Bebe Daniels was born on 14 January 1901 in Dallas, Texas. Daniels began her acting career early, appearing in a stage performance of <i>Richard III</i> at age 4. At age 7, she made her film debut with <i>The Common Enemy</i> (1910). In 1919, Daniels was signed by Paramount. After Paramount dropped her contract, she was signed by Radio Pictures who cast her in their 1929 film <i>Rio Rita</i>, which was one of the most successful films of the year. When Radio Pictures chose not to renew her contract, Warner Brothers signed her and cast her in films such as <i>42nd Street</i> (1933) and <i>Counsellor at Law</i> (1933). Besides being an actress, Daniels was also a talented singer and dancer, so the studios cast her in many musical films throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s. In 1935, Daniels retired from Hollywood and moved to London with her husband, actor Ben Lyon. She stayed in Britain for the remainder of her life, where she became popular in radio and television, until her death in 1971. Over the course of her acting career, Bebe Daniels made over 230 films.</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: 2014.0117.09
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.09
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