Postcard for the television show Roll Out!: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Promotional postcard for the television show "Roll Out!." The front of the postcard features a color image of the case who stand in front of a light blue background. The cast are featured in two (2) rows, centered in the image. The cast is dressed in military uniforms. The top row has two (2) cast members standing, Ed Begley, Jr. is on the left and Val Bisoglio is on the right. The bottom row has three (3) cast members, from left to right: Mel Stewart, Stu Gilliam, and Hilly Hicks. The reverse of the postcard is vertically oriented and has the signatures of the actors: [Stu Gilliam/Hilly Hicks/Mel Stewart/Val Bisoglio/Ed Begley, Jr.]. In the lower left corner is the television producer logo [20th/CENTURY/FOX / TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX TELEVISION]. In the lower right is additional text: [TAMKIN COLOR].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1973
• Subject of: Stu Gilliam, American, 1933 - 2013
• Subject of: Mel Stewart, American, 1929 - 2002
• Subject of: Hilly Gene Hicks, American, born 1950
• Subject of: Val Bisoglio, American, born 1926
• Subject of: Edward James Begley Jr., American, born 1949
• Manufactured by: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, American, founded 1935
• Owned by: Stu Gilliam, American, 1933 - 2013
• Type: postcards
• Medium: ink on paper (fiber product)
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (8.9 × 14 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Comedy
• Topic: Television
• Object number: A2014.178.26.4.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Vivian Gilliam in memory of Stu Gilliam
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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