Billy the Kid Movie Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
Billy the Kid Movie Poster: date made: 1941. associated person: Taylor, Robert. Object Name: Poster.
The object in the museum catalogue
Poster promoting the 1941 film Billy the Kid starring Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard, Gene Lockhart, and Lon Chaney, Jr. The film was a remake of a 1930 film with the same name and was not as well received as the original.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1941
- associated person: Taylor, Robert
- Object Name: Poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 40 1/2 in x 27 in; 102.87 cm x 68.58 cm
- place made: United States
- Associated Place: United States: New York, New York City
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- ID Number: 2017.3021.029
- nonaccession number: 2017.3021
- catalog number: 2017.3021.029
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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