John Barrymore as "Hamlet"
date: label: release date
content: 1936
name: label: recording artist
content: Barrymore, John
label: manufacturer
content: Famous Record Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>John Barrymore. Hamlet Soliloquy (Famous Record Co. 063395-1R).<br>78 rpm. Image of actor John Barrymore printed on paper, laminated in plastic.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Famous Record Co. Inc. issued five 10” shellac single-side recordings with paper labels and subsequently the same recordings as 8” diameter flexi-disc single-side recordings, around 1936. Each record featured an American film actor: Franchot Tone, Luise Rainer, John Barrymore, Ilka Chase, and Joe E. Brown, with his or her image and autograph. All recordings were introduced by American radio announcer Del Sharbutt.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eula W. Wake in Memory of Harry Wake
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0656.463
label: accession number
content: 1981.0656
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0656.463
label: maker number
content: 063395-1R
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in; x 20.32 cm