Dorothy Mackaill cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Mackaill, Dorothy
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card of actress Dorothy Mackaill with a short biography written on the back. British-American actress Dorothy Mackaill was born on 4 March 1903 in Yorkshire, England. Starting in the chorus in London and Paris, she got her first break at age sixteen when she became one of the Ziegfeld Follies in New York. Once she was in the U.S., she began acting in silent films and eventually talkies. Her first lead role was in the 1924 film <i>The Man Who Came Back</i>. Mackaill is known for her memorable role in the 1932 film <i>Love Affair</i>, in which she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart. She died on 12 August 1990 at the age of 87. According to this Cavander's card, Mackaill was “one of the most popular film actresses in America.”</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: 2014.0117.01
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: card
label: Object Name
content: collectible 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