Mary Nolan cinema card
date: label: date made
content: 1934
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Nolan, Mary
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Hand-colored cinema card for actress Mary Nolan with a short biography on the back. American actress Mary Nolan was born Mary Imogene Robertson on 18 December 1902 in Louisville, Kentucky. She began her career on stage as a Ziegfield girl by the name of “Bubbles.” In 1924, Nolan was fired for having an affair with comedian, Frank Tinney. In an attempt to escape the scandal, she moved to Germany where she made 17 films under the name “Imogene Robertson” from 1925-1927. In 1928, Nolan returned to U.S. and signed a contract with Universal. She was also loaned out to MGM to make the films <i>West of Zanzibar</i> (1928) and <i>Desert Nights</i> (1929) which were quite successful. By the 1930s, Nolan's career began to decline due to her affairs, drug abuse, and temperamental behavior. She did occasional vaudeville and nightclub performances until her tragic death from a drug overdose on 31 October 1948.</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: 2014.0117.12
label: accession number
content: 2014.0117
label: catalog number
content: 2014.0117.12
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