It Happened in Flatbush lobby card: Museum Object and Cultural History
It Happened in Flatbush lobby card: date made: 1942. Object Name: print. Object Name: poster, movie.
The object in the museum catalogue
Lobby card for the 1942 baseball-themed comedy It Happened in Flatbush. Directed by Ray McCarey, the film stars Lloyd Nolan as “Butterfingers” Maguire, who faces adversity while leading Brooklyn to the pennant. Carole Landis plays the love interest, socialite team owner Kathryn Baker.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1942
- Object Name: print
- Object Name: poster, movie
- Object Name: print, 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
- web subject: Sports
- web subject: Movie
- name of sport: Baseball
- Subject: Entertainment
- associated subject: Comedy
- ID Number: 2009.3098.14
- nonaccession number: 2009.3098
- catalog number: 2009.3098.14
- Credit Line: Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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