Yankee Doodle Dandy Film Premiere Ticket: Museum Object and Cultural History
Yankee Doodle Dandy Film Premiere Ticket: date made: 1942. date used: 1942. referenced: Cagney, James.
The object in the museum catalogue
Ticket to the May 29, 1942 "$5,000,000 World Premiere" of the Warner Brothers film Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney as George M. Cohan. This $100 Balcony ticket for the Hollywood Theatre on Broadway at 51st Street in New York City was issued "On behalf of the N.Y. War Savings Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department."
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1942
- date used: 1942
- referenced: Cagney, James
- referenced: Cohan, George M.
- Object Name: Ticket
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: printed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 5/16 in; 8.89 cm x 18.542 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- Subject: World War II
- related event: World War II
- ID Number: 1987.0800.01
- accession number: 1987.0800
- catalog number: 1987.0800.01
- Credit Line: William A. Barnes
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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