Free, blonde and 21 – Vintage Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Free, blonde and 21. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Free, blonde and 21
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The poster's caption sets the joke: a group of women who share "stockings, lipstick, frocks" but not their men. *Free, Blonde and 21* was a 1940 20th Century-Fox release directed by Ricardo Cortez, a former silent-era leading man who had moved behind the camera. The lineup, led by Lynn Bari and Mary Beth Hughes and including comedian Joan Davis, shows how studios of the period promoted an ensemble cast alongside their stars. The color offset lithograph was printed by Joseph H. Tooker Litho. Co., a firm that produced many film posters in this era.
| Created / published | U.S.A. : Joseph H. Tooker Litho. Co., Inc., c1940. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : offset lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Motion picture posters American 1940.Offset lithographs Color 1940. |
| Notes | Title from item. Captioned: They share stockings, lipstick, frocks - but one thing they don't share - their men! Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joan Davis, Henry Wilcoxon, Robert Lowery, Alan Baxter, Katharine Aldridge, Helen Ericson, and Chick Chandler. A 20th Century-Fox picture. Executive producer, Sol M. Wurtzel ; directed by Ricardo Cortez. Copyright by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., MCMXL. No. 4567. Purchase; Lester Glassner; 2002; (DLC/PP-2002:148). |
| Subjects | Bari, Lynn--Performances. Hughes, Mary Beth,--1919---Performances. Davis, Joan,--1912-1961--Performances. Wilcoxon, Henry,--1905-1984--Performances. Women--Social life--1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,142 × 5,153 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224257 |
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