Scaramouche plaque: Museum Object and Cultural History
Scaramouche plaque: Date made: 1951. producer: Sidney, George. Object Name: Plaque.
The object in the museum catalogue
Stage prop used in the 1952 motion picture Scaramouche. The object is a miniature crest with miniature fencing mask and text: "SIDNEY 1951." It also includes crossed gold swords with red and gold painted hatchets behind a gold helmet, as well as a banner plate painted with the word “Scaramouche.”
George Sidney directed this adventure film set in eighteenth century France about a man avenging the death of his best friend at the hands of a master swordsman. Stewart Granger, Janet Leigh, and Eleanor Parker star in this film.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1951
- producer: Sidney, George
- Object Name: Plaque
- Measurements: overall: 15 3/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 1 in; 40.005 cm x 24.13 cm x 2.54 cm
- place made: United States: California, Culver City
- Subject: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2004.0166.25
- accession number: 2004.0166
- catalog number: 2004.0166.25
- Credit Line: Gift of Corinne Entratter Sidney
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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