Four Jills in a jeep – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Four Jills in a jeep comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Four Jills in a jeep
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Four stars, Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Mitzi Mayfair and Martha Raye, share top billing on this color poster, which was printed in New York around 1944. "Jill" was wartime slang for the women who entertained American troops, and the title plays on that name for a jeep-borne tour of the sort the Hollywood stars made for the USO. The 1944 film of the same name cast the four women as themselves, so the poster doubles as a snapshot of how studios sold wartime morale.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 105 x 69 cm. |
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| Notes | New York : Tooker Litho. Corp., c1944. |
| Subjects | Francis, Kay,--1905-1968--Performances. Landis, Carole,--1919-1948--Performances. Mayfair, Mitzi--Performances. Raye, Martha--Performances. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,099 × 5,115 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226396 |
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