Rock, Pretty Baby lobby card: Museum Object and Cultural History
Rock, Pretty Baby lobby card: date made: 1956. Object Name: Movie Stills. Object Name: card.
The object in the museum catalogue
Original lobby card for the 1956 motion picture, Rock, Pretty Baby. Richard Bartlett directed this musical comedy about teenage musicians competing in a contest with the hopes of making it big one day. Rock, Pretty Baby stars Sil Mineo, John Saxon, and Luana Patten. This card depicts Jimmy Daley in a fight.
Lobby cards were once a popular form of advertisement for motion pictures. The publicity departments of Hollywood studios created cards featuring striking images of their latest films and delivered sets to theatres across the country. Lobby cards were created to entice future audiences and increase ticket sales.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1956
- Object Name: Movie Stills
- Object Name: card
- Object Name: lobby card
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm
- Subject: Movie
- ID Number: 2009.0017.58.08
- accession number: 2009.0017
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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