It Happens Every Spring: Museum Object and Cultural History
It Happens Every Spring: date made: 1949. Associated Name: Milland, Ray. Object Name: lobby card.
The object in the museum catalogue
Lobby card for the 1949 baseball-themed comedy It Happens Every Spring . Directed by Lloyd Bacon, the film stars Ray Milland as "Vernon Simpson", a college professor who invents a substance that is repelled by wood. Taking up the name of “King Kelly”, he uses the substance to become a pitching ace for the “St. Louis” baseball team, leading the club to the World Series. Jean Peters plays love interest “Deborah Greenleaf” with Paul Douglas as St. Louis catcher “Monk Lanigan”.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1949
- Associated Name: Milland, Ray
- Object Name: lobby card
- Object Name: lobby card, baseball
- Physical Description: cardboard (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 13 3/4 in x 11 in; 34.925 cm x 27.94 cm
- name of sport: Baseball
- web subject: Motion Pictures
- web subject: Sports
- web subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Comedy
- ID Number: 2009.3098.11
- nonaccession number: 2009.3098
- catalog number: 2009.3098.11
- Credit Line: Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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