Card, Advertisement - Alan Ladd
Object number2009.072.01
Date1940's-1950's
MediumPaper, Ink
Dimensions5 5/16 x 3 1/4 in. (13.5 x 8.3 cm)
Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection
DescriptionAdvertisement card for actor and Hot Springs native Alan Ladd. Alan Ladd was born September 3, 1913, in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and lived in Arkansas until around the age of five. He was an actor who appeared in over 80 films and was one of the most recognizable celebrities of the 1940s and '50s. He starred in such films as "Two Years before the Mast," "The Blue Dahlia," and "The Great Gatsby." However, Ladd is perhaps best known for his role in the 1953 western movie "Shane." Ladd died on January 29, 1964.
Black and white. Ladd is dressed in a white plaid button-up shirt; he is leaning against what appears to be some kind of support with a rope tied around it. In handwritten print in the bottom right corner reads, "Truly Yours / Alan Ladd." In the bottom right hand corner is printed, "Made in U.S.A."
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