The Candidate Movie Poster: Museum Object and Cultural History
The Candidate Movie Poster: date made: 1972. depicted (sitter): Redford, Robert. Object Name: Poster.
The object in the museum catalogue
Movie poster for the 1972 film The Candidate. The poster is a close-up photograph of actor Robert Redford wearing a white shirt and tie, captioned “McKay the better way.” Michael Ritchie directed this drama about an election for a U.S. Senate seat in California. Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas, and Don Porter also starred in this film with Redford.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1972
- depicted (sitter): Redford, Robert
- Object Name: Poster
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 34 in x 22 5/16 in; 86.36 cm x 56.67375 cm
- received: United States: District of Columbia
- general subject association: Motion Pictures
- Subject: Movie
- ID Number: 1977.1116.01
- catalog number: 1977.1116.01
- accession number: 1977.1116
- Credit Line: Ellen Roney Hughes
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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