Roogie's Bump lobby card: Museum Object and Cultural History
Roogie's Bump lobby card: date made: 1954. Associated Name: Brooklyn Dodgers. Object Name: poster, movie.
The object in the museum catalogue
Lobby card for the 1954 baseball-themed comedy Roogie’s Bump . In the film, a young boy, “Roogie” Rigsby, played by Robert Marriott, pitches for the Brooklyn Dodgers after developing a magical bump on his arm. Directed by Harold Young, the movie features cameos from Dodgers players Roy Campanella, Carl Erskine, Russ Meyer and Billy Loe.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1954
- Associated Name: Brooklyn Dodgers
- 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
- ID Number: 2009.3098.13
- nonaccession number: 2009.3098
- catalog number: 2009.3098.13
- Credit Line: Dr. Ronald L. Gabriel (through Thomas J. Cholis)
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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