Card, Lobby
Object number2021.91.2
Datec. 1944
OriginUnited States of America
MediumPaper; Ink; Graphite
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
DescriptionLobby card. Rectangular off-white paper card. Front features color printed movie still of two men and two women in a bedroom; each woman is standing and pulling the bedcovers off of the men in their respective beds. Front bottom left corner has red graphic image of work gloves and riveting gun. Black and blue printed text along bottom. Reverse is off-white paper.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 11 × 14.125 × 0.063 in. (27.9 × 35.9 × 0.2 cm)InscriptionsBlack and blue printed text along bottom, from left to right: "A / REPUBLIC PICTURE", " "Rosie, the Riveter" ", and "COUNTRY OF ORIGIN U. S. A."
Reverse has handwritten text in pencil in the top left corner "A PUERTAS CERRADAS"; translation "Doors closed".
Historical NotesLobby card used to promote the musical film "Rosie the Riveter." The film was released in 1944 by Republic Pictures and starred Jane Frazee as Rosalind "Rosie" Warren. The film’s screenplay was written by Aleen Leslie, also a longtime columnist for the Pittsburgh Press who later worked on Three Stooges films then became one of Hollywood’s few female screen writers in the 1940s-1950s.
Related institution
Republic Pictures Corporation
Related person
Jane Frazee
Related person
Frank Albertson
Related person
Vera Vague
Related person
Frank Jenks
Related person
Aleen Leslie
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